Pay compression ratio in public sector, by occupation: Primary school teacher (clerk as reference)

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

📅 2017📏 clerk as reference143 entries

Europe · 31

Asia · 35

Oceania · 1

Africa · 47

Americas · 29

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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.

🇹🇯Tajikistan

3.6

🇦🇿Azerbaijan

3.6

🇰🇿Kazakhstan

3.5

🇨🇾Cyprus

3.3

🇸🇻El Salvador

3.1

🇸🇬Singapore

2.9

🇮🇪Ireland

2.9

🇬🇲Gambia

2.9

🇦🇴Angola

2.8

🇲🇩Moldova

2.7

🇵🇹Portugal

2.6

🇲🇿Mozambique

2.6

🇵🇱Poland

2.6

🇧🇳Brunei

2.3

🇲🇹Malta

2.2

🇱🇹Lithuania

2.1

🇨🇮Ivory Coast

2.1

🇵🇭Philippines

2.0

🇲🇦Morocco

2.0

🇬🇧United Kingdom

1.9

🇦🇲Armenia

1.9

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

1.9

🇧🇬Bulgaria

1.9

🇲🇽Mexico

1.9

🇱🇦Laos

1.8

🇬🇳Guinea

1.8

🇹🇷Türkiye

1.8

🇧🇹Bhutan

1.8

🇳🇬Nigeria

1.8

🇧🇾Belarus

1.7

🇨🇱Chile

1.7

🇨🇴Colombia

1.7

🇮🇹Italy

1.7

🇭🇰Hong Kong

1.7

🇲🇪Montenegro

1.6

🇲🇾Malaysia

1.6

🇮🇩Indonesia

1.6

🇹🇳Tunisia

1.6

🇨🇷Costa Rica

1.6

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

1.6

🇭🇺Hungary

1.6

🇱🇺Luxembourg

1.5

🇸🇨Seychelles

1.5

🇰🇼Kuwait

1.5

🇸🇰Slovakia

1.5

🇨🇬Congo

1.5

🇯🇲Jamaica

1.5

🇮🇱Israel

1.5

🇬🇩Grenada

1.5

🇲🇷Mauritania

1.5

Highlights

As of 2017, Tajikistan ranks first with 3.6, followed by Azerbaijan (3.6) and Kazakhstan (3.5).

Across 143 countries and territories, values run from 3.6 (Tajikistan) to 0.3 (Rwanda), with a median of 1.3.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Asia, 3 from Europe, 2 from Africa and 1 from the Americas.

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

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

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Highlights

As of 2017, Tajikistan ranks first with 3.6, followed by Azerbaijan (3.6) and Kazakhstan (3.5).

Across 143 countries and territories, values run from 3.6 (Tajikistan) to 0.3 (Rwanda), with a median of 1.3.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 4 from Asia, 3 from Europe, 2 from Africa and 1 from the Americas.

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