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P-Value: Public sector wage premium, by education level (compared to formal wage employees)

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

📅 2021📏 compared to formal wage employees10 entries
10leaders
  1. 🇦🇷 Argentina0.4
  2. 🇦🇲 Armenia0.0
  3. 🇧🇴 Bolivia0.0
  4. 🇧🇷 Brazil0.0
  5. 🇨🇷 Costa Rica0.0
  6. 🇸🇻 El Salvador0.0
  7. 🇬🇭 Ghana0.0
  8. 🇵🇦 Panama0.0
  9. 🇵🇾 Paraguay0.0
  10. 🇵🇪 Peru0.0
Each wedge is one entry; longer wedges indicate higher values.
1
🇦🇷Argentina
0.4
2
🇦🇲Armenia
0.0
3
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.0
4
🇧🇷Brazil
0.0
5
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.0
6
🇸🇻El Salvador
0.0
7
🇬🇭Ghana
0.0
8
🇵🇦Panama
0.0
9
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.0
10
🇵🇪Peru
0.0

Highlights

As of 2021, Argentina ranks first with 0.4, followed by Armenia (0.0) and Bolivia (0.0).

Across 10 countries and territories, values run from 0.4 (Argentina) to 0.0 (Peru), 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 — P-Value: Public sector wage premium, by education level (compared to formal wage employees), 2021. Unit: compared to formal wage employees.

Source: World Bank Open Data — P-Value: Public sector wage premium, by education level (compared to formal wage employees) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026