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Public sector wage premium, by gender: Female (compared to all private employees)

Public sector wage premium, by gender: Female (compared to all private employees), reported by Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators in the World Bank Open Data catalog.

📅 2021📏 compared to all private employees11 entries
The 7 highest and 7 lowest of 11 entries; 2 are below zero. Bars to the left of the line are negative.
1
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.7
2
🇸🇻El Salvador
0.7
3
🇬🇭Ghana
0.6
4
🇵🇪Peru
0.6
5
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.6
6
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.5
7
🇵🇦Panama
0.4
8
🇦🇷Argentina
0.3
9
🇧🇷Brazil
0.3
10
🇲🇳Mongolia
-0.1
11
🇦🇲Armenia
-0.2

Highlights

As of 2021, Costa Rica ranks first with 0.7, followed by El Salvador (0.7) and Ghana (0.6).

Across 11 countries and territories, values run from 0.7 (Costa Rica) to -0.2 (Armenia), with a median of 0.5.

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 gender: Female (compared to all private employees), 2021. Unit: compared to all private employees.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Public sector wage premium, by gender: Female (compared to all private employees) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026