Public sector wage premium (compared to all private employees)

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

📅 2021📏 compared to all private 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

0.6

🇨🇷Costa Rica

0.6

🇵🇦Panama

0.5

🇧🇴Bolivia

0.4

🇧🇷Brazil

0.3

🇵🇾Paraguay

0.3

🇬🇭Ghana

0.2

🇦🇷Argentina

0.1

🇲🇳Mongolia

-0.1

🇦🇲Armenia

-0.2

Highlights

As of 2021, El Salvador ranks first with 0.6, followed by Costa Rica (0.6) and Panama (0.5).

Across 10 countries and territories, values run from 0.6 (El Salvador) to -0.2 (Armenia), with a median of 0.3.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 7 from the Americas, 2 from Asia and 1 from Africa.

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