In 1954, Canadian Prime Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent was paid a salary of $15 000. Stephen Harper, the Prime Minister in 2012, was paid $157 731. The price index for 1954 is 14.1 and the price index for 2012 is 121.7. What is, approximately, Prime Minister St. Laurent's salary equivalent in 2012 dollars?

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