ZURICH — FIFA President Gianni Infantino has agreed an annual salary of 1.5 million Swiss francs ($1.53 million) with no bonus in 2016.
FIFA says Infantino also receives a chauffeured car, lodgings paid, plus monthly expenses of 2,000 Swiss francs ($2,040), in the contract signed Wednesday. He will be eligible for a bonus in 2017 under a new FIFA compensation policy.
The deal backdated to February, ends a dispute that saw former FIFA audit panel chairman Domenico Scala resign in protest.
Infantino had described as “insulting” Scala’s offer of around 2 million Swiss francs ($2.04 million) and no bonus.
FIFA’s former president and secretary general, Sepp Blatter and Jerome Valcke, got bonuses of at least $10 million for each World Cup. Their basic salaries were around $3 million and $2 million, respectively.
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