FIFA President, Sepp Blatter’s salary remained a secret Wednesday while the money-spinning world football body still backed its reform process and insisted it was becoming more financially transparent.

A day after FIFA said a debate over restricting the age and number of terms of officials would be put off until at least next year, the earnings of its leaders were also still off limits ahead of the annual congress in Mauritius today and tomorrow.

Domenico Scala, a Swiss industrialist brought in to be FIFA’s top financial watchdog and lead its new audit and compliance committee, said he knew how much money Blatter made but would not reveal it.

“It is not my role to disclose it,’ Scala said at a beachside hotel on the Indian Ocean Island. ‘The decision to disclose salaries is part of the process we have... and part of the role of the FIFA Executive Committee. You will definitely not get the salary from me. You will have to get the salary from him,” he said.

Blatter has reportedly referred questions over his earnings and bonuses to Scala, and hinted in the past that it was just over $1 million. It’s believed to be much more than that.  Making public earnings of top FIFA officials - especially the decision-making executive committee - was one of the recommendations of law professor, Mark Pieth’s expert panel after those advisers were brought in by FIFA after recent scandals involving corruption and financial misconduct.

FIFA said ‘key management personnel’ shared $33.5 million in bonuses and perks in 2012, and Pieth’s reformers have pushed for more openness over remuneration of top figures as one of three key reforms that won’t now be adopted at the annual congress in Mauritius.

Scala also described as ‘horrible’ an ethics report from CONCACAF into alleged long-running corruption by United States official, Chuck Blazer, and disgraced former CONCACAF President, Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago.