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

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

📅 2017📏 clerk as reference133 entries

Europe · 29

Asia · 30

Africa · 47

Americas · 27

2 clerk as reference4 clerk as reference6 clerk as reference

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

6.8

🇮🇪Ireland

3.8

🇸🇹São Tomé and Príncipe

3.7

🇳🇬Nigeria

3.6

🇲🇿Mozambique

3.5

🇨🇾Cyprus

3.2

🇸🇻El Salvador

3.1

🇬🇲Gambia

3.0

🇸🇬Singapore

2.9

🇨🇮Ivory Coast

2.7

🇵🇱Poland

2.7

🇵🇹Portugal

2.6

🇮🇹Italy

2.5

🇨🇷Costa Rica

2.5

🇧🇯Benin

2.3

🇧🇳Brunei

2.3

🇲🇽Mexico

2.3

🇲🇦Morocco

2.3

🇻🇨Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

2.2

🇵🇭Philippines

2.2

🇬🇧United Kingdom

2.2

🇲🇹Malta

2.2

🇬🇳Guinea

2.2

🇱🇹Lithuania

2.1

🇲🇱Mali

2.0

🇹🇳Tunisia

2.0

🇪🇹Ethiopia

1.9

🇯🇲Jamaica

1.9

🇲🇷Mauritania

1.9

🇨🇱Chile

1.9

🇱🇦Laos

1.9

🇲🇾Malaysia

1.9

🇹🇷Türkiye

1.8

🇲🇻Maldives

1.8

🇧🇬Bulgaria

1.8

🇲🇪Montenegro

1.8

🇱🇺Luxembourg

1.8

🇭🇰Hong Kong

1.8

🇧🇹Bhutan

1.8

🇮🇱Israel

1.7

🇮🇩Indonesia

1.7

🇹🇿Tanzania

1.7

🇧🇫Burkina Faso

1.6

🇬🇩Grenada

1.6

🇨🇻Cape Verde

1.6

🇫🇷France

1.6

🇳🇦Namibia

1.6

🇱🇰Sri Lanka

1.6

🇭🇺Hungary

1.6

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia

1.6

Highlights

As of 2017, Angola ranks first with 6.8, followed by Ireland (3.8) and São Tomé and Príncipe (3.7).

Angola is 1.8 times higher than Ireland, the runner-up.

Across 133 countries and territories, values run from 6.8 (Angola) to 0.5 (Rwanda), with a median of 1.4.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Africa, 2 from Europe, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Asia.

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

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

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