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Public sector wage premium, by occupational group: Clerks (compared to formal wage employees)

Public sector wage premium, by occupational group: Clerks (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; 3 are below zero. Bars to the left of the line are negative.
1
🇧🇷Brazil
0.2
2
🇸🇻El Salvador
0.2
3
🇵🇪Peru
0.2
4
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.1
5
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.0
6
🇵🇦Panama
0.0
7
🇦🇷Argentina
0.0
8
🇵🇾Paraguay
-0.0
9
🇬🇭Ghana
-0.0
10
🇦🇲Armenia
-0.2

Highlights

As of 2021, Brazil ranks first with 0.2, followed by El Salvador (0.2) and Peru (0.2).

Across 10 countries and territories, values run from 0.2 (Brazil) to -0.2 (Armenia), with a median of 0.0.

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, by occupational group: Clerks (compared to formal wage employees), 2021. Unit: compared to formal wage employees.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Public sector wage premium, by occupational group: Clerks (compared to formal wage employees) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026