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Pay compression ratio in public sector, by occupation: Hospital nurse (clerk as reference)

Pay compression ratio in public sector, by occupation: Hospital nurse (clerk as reference), reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2017📏 clerk as reference150 entries

Africa · 48

Americas · 28

Asia · 36

Europe · 35

Oceania · 3

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

🇦🇴Angola

5.1

🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe

4.5

🇬🇳Guinea

3.5

🇬🇲Gambia

3.3

🇨🇷Costa Rica

2.8

🇳🇬Nigeria

2.7

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

2.5

🇪🇹Ethiopia

2.4

🇧🇮Burundi

2.4

🇮🇱Israel

2.3

🇱🇸Lesotho

2.2

🇲🇼Malawi

2.1

🇸🇬Singapore

2.0

🇲🇩Moldova

2.0

🇺🇸United States

1.9

🇸🇻El Salvador

1.9

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1.9

🇲🇾Malaysia

1.8

🇸🇿Eswatini

1.8

🇭🇳Honduras

1.8

🇸🇷Suriname

1.8

🇵🇾Paraguay

1.8

🇵🇭Philippines

1.8

🇲🇻Maldives

1.7

🇮🇩Indonesia

1.7

🇧🇴Bolivia

1.7

🇧🇲Bermuda

1.6

🇨🇮Ivory Coast

1.6

🇵🇰Pakistan

1.6

🇭🇰Hong Kong

1.6

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

1.6

🇷🇴Romania

1.6

🇩🇯Djibouti

1.6

🇲🇦Morocco

1.6

🇧🇹Bhutan

1.6

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

1.5

🇹🇯Tajikistan

1.5

🇲🇿Mozambique

1.5

🇲🇽Mexico

1.5

🇬🇭Ghana

1.5

🇲🇺Mauritius

1.5

🇹🇬Togo

1.5

🇧🇩Bangladesh

1.5

🇹🇷Türkiye

1.5

🇹🇭Thailand

1.5

🇬🇦Gabon

1.5

🇲🇰North Macedonia

1.4

🇬🇧United Kingdom

1.4

🇲🇱Mali

1.4

🇨🇻Cape Verde

1.4

Highlights

As of 2017, Angola ranks first with 5.1, followed by São Tomé and Príncipe (4.5) and Guinea (3.5).

Across 150 countries and territories, values run from 5.1 (Angola) to 0.6 (Qatar), with a median of 1.2.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Africa, 2 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Pay compression ratio in public sector, by occupation: Hospital nurse (clerk as reference), 2017. Unit: clerk as reference.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Pay compression ratio in public sector, by occupation: Hospital nurse (clerk as reference) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026

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Highlights

As of 2017, Angola ranks first with 5.1, followed by São Tomé and Príncipe (4.5) and Guinea (3.5).

Across 150 countries and territories, values run from 5.1 (Angola) to 0.6 (Qatar), with a median of 1.2.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from Africa, 2 from Asia and 1 from the Americas.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Pay compression ratio in public sector, by occupation: Hospital nurse (clerk as reference), 2017. Unit: clerk as reference.