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Public sector wage premium, by education level: No education (compared to formal wage employees)

Public sector wage premium, by education level: No education (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; 2 are below zero. Bars to the left of the line are negative.
1
🇵🇦Panama
0.6
2
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.5
3
🇦🇷Argentina
0.4
4
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.3
5
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.1
6
🇸🇻El Salvador
0.1
7
🇧🇷Brazil
0.1
8
🇵🇪Peru
0.0
9
🇬🇭Ghana
-0.1
10
🇦🇲Armenia
-0.2

Highlights

As of 2021, Panama ranks first with 0.6, followed by Paraguay (0.5) and Argentina (0.4).

Across 10 countries and territories, values run from 0.6 (Panama) to -0.2 (Armenia), with a median of 0.1.

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 education level: No Education (compared to formal wage employees), 2021. Unit: compared to formal wage employees.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Public sector wage premium, by education level: No Education (compared to formal wage employees) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026