Over eighty percent (80%) of public sector employees receive less than Ghc3,000.00 as their monthly salary.
This was revealed in a in a new report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).
According to the report, four our of every five public sector employees earn this amount.
Out of the 688,000 persons employed by the government, a majority of them, 533,179 earn less than Ghc3,000 as their salaries by the end of the month.
According to Government Statistician, Prof Samuel Kobina Annim, “80% of the public sector workers earn less than GH₵3,000. If you take every five employees, four out of them are earning less than GH₵3000.”
“On the other hand, if you have the disparities if your take home is on a minimum of GH₵418 relative to a maximum of GH₵33,000.”
“Look at this rate, minimum GH₵418, maximum about GH₵33,000 and because 80% earn less than GH ₵3,000 you get an average figure of GH₵2,594.”
“Despite the conversation on earnings in politics, the first basic thing we do is put all of us in the public sector in groups of 10 in ascending order based on our earnings,” Prof. Annim stated.
The new survey titled the Ghana 2022 earnings: inequality in the public sector also revealed that 104,349 people earn between GH₵3000 to GH₵4999, while 20,606 persons earn between GH₵5000 to GH₵9999.
The report indicated that 6,225 people earn over GH₵10,000 a month.
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