If the Chamber of Commerce is doing well, the Chamber of Commerce is doing well: While the interest group has been warning for restraint in salary agreements for months, the salaries of the top officials in the federal states rose sharply. As the ZiB 2 reported on Thursday, there was the highest percentage increase in 2025 for the WK presidents in Burgenland and Styria. Here the “functional compensation” rose from 6,977 euros gross per month to 10,828 – a massive increase of 55 percent. And because there seems to be a lot to do in Lower Austria, the president there now gets 14,076 euros instead of 9,302 euros.