Public sector wage premium (compared to formal wage employees)

Public sector wage premium (compared to formal wage employees), reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2021📏 compared to formal wage employees10 entries

The 7 highest and 7 lowest of 10 entries; 2 are below zero. Bars to the left of the line are negative.

🇸🇻El Salvador

0.3

🇨🇷Costa Rica

0.3

🇵🇦Panama

0.3

🇬🇭Ghana

0.2

🇧🇷Brazil

0.2

🇵🇪Peru

0.1

🇧🇴Bolivia

0.1

🇵🇾Paraguay

0.1

🇦🇷Argentina

-0.0

🇦🇲Armenia

-0.2

Highlights

As of 2021, El Salvador ranks first with 0.3, followed by Costa Rica (0.3) and Panama (0.3).

Across 10 countries and territories, values run from 0.3 (El Salvador) to -0.2 (Armenia), with a median of 0.2.

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

Source: World Bank Open Data — Public sector wage premium (compared to formal wage employees), 2021. Unit: compared to formal wage employees.