Knesset Legal Adviser Sagit Afik Tops 2025 Senior Salary List
Knesset Legal Adviser Sagit Afik topped the 2025 Knesset payroll with a gross annual salary of 917,143 shekels. Newly released freedom of information data reveals substantial wage gaps across 39 senior parliamentary positions.
Knesset Legal Adviser Sagit Afik topped the Knesset's senior payroll in 2025 with an annual gross salary of 917,143 shekels, averaging about 76,429 shekels per month. The figures were released following a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Freedom of Information Movement.
The data reveals significant wage disparities among senior officials, including employees holding similar positions. The information was provided in an official letter signed by the Knesset's Freedom of Information officer. The list encompasses 39 senior positions, detailing annual gross compensation for 2025 without listing individual names, except for identifiable roles.
Following Afik on the salary scale is a committee director with an annual gross salary of 809,123 shekels, or about 67,427 shekels monthly. In third place is the Knesset Secretary, whose annual salary reached 806,148 shekels. Further down the list appear a deputy director-general with 781,349 shekels annually and the Knesset Sergeant-at-Arms with 780,141 shekels.
The gross annual salary of the Knesset Director-General stood at 767,026 shekels, while the Deputy Director-General received 683,380 shekels, and the Deputy Legal Adviser received 645,103 shekels. Wage gaps are particularly prominent among committee directors, ranging from over 809,000 shekels down to positions earning between 455,833 and 536,666 shekels annually.
