Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Primary school teacher (using median)

Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Primary school teacher (using median), reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2017📏 using median146 entries

Europe · 32

Americas · 30

Asia · 35

Oceania · 1

Africa · 48

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Every dot is one country, placed by its value (using median); the vertical bar marks each row’s median. Rows are world regions, ordered by their median. Hover a dot for its name.

🇰🇼Kuwait

7.4

🇱🇺Luxembourg

5.9

🇨🇾Cyprus

5.5

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

5.1

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates

5.0

🇭🇰Hong Kong

4.8

🇸🇬Singapore

4.6

🇶🇦Qatar

4.3

🇮🇪Ireland

3.9

🇧🇳Brunei

3.8

🇩🇪Germany

3.7

🇮🇹Italy

3.6

🇴🇲Oman

3.6

🇧🇪Belgium

3.6

🇺🇸United States

3.6

🇫🇷France

3.1

🇳🇱Netherlands

3.1

🇩🇰Denmark

3.0

🇵🇱Poland

3.0

🇳🇴Norway

2.9

🇦🇹Austria

2.9

🇵🇹Portugal

2.9

🇬🇧United Kingdom

2.9

🇧🇭Bahrain

2.8

🇰🇾Cayman Islands

2.6

🇫🇮Finland

2.6

🇲🇾Malaysia

2.4

🇮🇸Iceland

2.4

🇲🇹Malta

2.3

🇨🇦Canada

2.2

🇨🇳China

2.1

🇮🇳India

2.0

🇧🇲Bermuda

2.0

🇮🇱Israel

1.8

🇹🇷Türkiye

1.8

🇨🇿Czechia

1.7

🇱🇹Lithuania

1.7

🇧🇸Bahamas

1.7

🇦🇼Aruba

1.6

🇿🇦South Africa

1.5

🇸🇪Sweden

1.5

🇲🇦Morocco

1.5

🇭🇺Hungary

1.5

🇸🇰Slovakia

1.5

🇳🇦Namibia

1.4

🇵🇭Philippines

1.4

🇮🇩Indonesia

1.4

🇸🇻El Salvador

1.4

🇨🇱Chile

1.4

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

1.3

Highlights

As of 2017, Kuwait ranks first with 7.4, followed by Luxembourg (5.9) and Cyprus (5.5).

Across 146 countries and territories, values run from 7.4 (Kuwait) to 0.1 (Burundi), with a median of 1.0.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Asia and 3 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Primary school teacher (using median), 2017. Unit: using median.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Primary school teacher (using median) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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Highlights

As of 2017, Kuwait ranks first with 7.4, followed by Luxembourg (5.9) and Cyprus (5.5).

Across 146 countries and territories, values run from 7.4 (Kuwait) to 0.1 (Burundi), with a median of 1.0.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Asia and 3 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Cross-country public sector pay comparison ratio, by occupation: Primary school teacher (using median), 2017. Unit: using median.