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

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

📅 2017📏 clerk as reference136 entries

Oceania · 3

Europe · 36

Asia · 29

Americas · 28

Africa · 40

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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.

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

3.3

🇦🇴Angola

2.7

🇬🇶Equatorial Guinea

2.7

🇨🇬Congo

2.4

🇮🇪Ireland

2.2

🇲🇩Moldova

2.1

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

2.0

🇵🇹Portugal

2.0

🇧🇬Bulgaria

2.0

🇳🇬Nigeria

1.9

🇹🇯Tajikistan

1.8

🇩🇿Algeria

1.8

🇵🇾Paraguay

1.8

🇬🇧United Kingdom

1.8

🇹🇳Tunisia

1.7

🇳🇿New Zealand

1.7

🇭🇺Hungary

1.6

🇺🇸United States

1.6

🇧🇾Belarus

1.6

🇦🇺Australia

1.6

🇦🇲Armenia

1.5

🇮🇶Iraq

1.5

🇲🇱Mali

1.5

🇨🇷Costa Rica

1.5

🇫🇷France

1.5

🇸🇮Slovenia

1.5

🇦🇬Antigua and Barbuda

1.5

🇱🇹Lithuania

1.5

🇨🇮Ivory Coast

1.5

🇸🇬Singapore

1.5

🇯🇲Jamaica

1.5

🇮🇹Italy

1.5

🇨🇴Colombia

1.5

🇪🇪Estonia

1.4

🇱🇻Latvia

1.4

🇹🇷Türkiye

1.4

🇳🇴Norway

1.4

🇧🇲Bermuda

1.4

🇸🇰Slovakia

1.3

🇻🇳Vietnam

1.3

🇨🇻Cape Verde

1.3

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1.3

🇮🇸Iceland

1.3

🇨🇦Canada

1.3

🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan

1.3

🇧🇴Bolivia

1.3

🇲🇽Mexico

1.3

🇫🇮Finland

1.3

🇨🇿Czechia

1.3

🇱🇦Laos

1.3

Highlights

As of 2017, Azerbaijan ranks first with 3.3, followed by Angola (2.7) and Equatorial Guinea (2.7).

Across 136 countries and territories, values run from 3.3 (Azerbaijan) to 0.4 (Dominican Republic), with a median of 1.1.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Africa, 4 from Europe and 2 from Asia.

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

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

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Highlights

As of 2017, Azerbaijan ranks first with 3.3, followed by Angola (2.7) and Equatorial Guinea (2.7).

Across 136 countries and territories, values run from 3.3 (Azerbaijan) to 0.4 (Dominican Republic), with a median of 1.1.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Africa, 4 from Europe and 2 from Asia.

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