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P-Value: Public sector wage premium (compared to formal wage employees)

P-Value: 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
1🇦🇷Argentina0.1compared to formal wage employees2🇵🇾Paraguay0.09% of #13🇦🇲Armenia0.00% of #1
The bar under each card is its value as a share of the leader’s.
1
🇦🇷Argentina
0.1
2
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.0
3
🇦🇲Armenia
0.0
4
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.0
5
🇧🇷Brazil
0.0
6
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.0
7
🇸🇻El Salvador
0.0
8
🇬🇭Ghana
0.0
9
🇵🇦Panama
0.0
10
🇵🇪Peru
0.0

Highlights

As of 2021, Argentina ranks first with 0.1, followed by Paraguay (0.0) and Armenia (0.0).

Argentina is 12 times higher than Paraguay, the runner-up.

Across 10 countries and territories, values run from 0.1 (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 (compared to formal wage employees), 2021. Unit: compared to formal wage employees.

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