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

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

📅 2017📏 clerk as reference132 entries

Oceania · 3

Africa · 41

Americas · 25

Asia · 28

Europe · 35

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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.

🇬🇲Gambia

39.6

🇬🇾Guyana

31.9

🇲🇼Malawi

22.4

🇺🇬Uganda

20.2

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

13.4

🇦🇴Angola

11.9

🇲🇷Mauritania

10.4

🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea

10.3

🇲🇺Mauritius

10.1

🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe

9.7

🇯🇲Jamaica

8.9

🇪🇹Ethiopia

8.6

🇨🇮Ivory Coast

8.4

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

8.2

🇿🇲Zambia

8.1

🇧🇼Botswana

8.1

🇸🇿Eswatini

7.9

🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago

7.7

🇨🇷Costa Rica

7.6

🇲🇩Moldova

7.5

🇮🇶Iraq

7.4

🇩🇿Algeria

7.3

🇹🇿Tanzania

7.3

🇳🇿New Zealand

7.1

🇨🇬Congo

7.1

🇨🇱Chile

7.1

🇧🇷Brazil

7.0

🇵🇹Portugal

7.0

🇿🇦South Africa

6.8

🇸🇻El Salvador

6.7

🇬🇼Guinea-Bissau

6.7

🇦🇲Armenia

6.7

🇳🇬Nigeria

6.6

🇮🇱Israel

6.6

🇲🇦Morocco

6.4

🇫🇯Fiji

6.3

🇰🇪Kenya

6.3

🇬🇳Guinea

6.2

🇬🇭Ghana

6.1

🇸🇱Sierra Leone

6.1

🇧🇯Benin

6.1

🇵🇭Philippines

6.0

🇭🇰Hong Kong

5.9

🇸🇷Suriname

5.9

🇱🇨Saint Lucia

5.8

🇧🇬Bulgaria

5.8

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

5.4

🇨🇾Cyprus

5.4

🇱🇷Liberia

5.2

🇰🇲Comoros

5.1

Highlights

As of 2017, Gambia ranks first with 39.6, followed by Guyana (31.9) and Malawi (22.4).

Across 132 countries and territories, values run from 39.6 (Gambia) to 1.1 (Vietnam), with a median of 4.4.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from Africa, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Asia.

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

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

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Highlights

As of 2017, Gambia ranks first with 39.6, followed by Guyana (31.9) and Malawi (22.4).

Across 132 countries and territories, values run from 39.6 (Gambia) to 1.1 (Vietnam), with a median of 4.4.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from Africa, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Asia.

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