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Public sector wage premium, by occupational group: Managers (compared to formal wage employees)

Public sector wage premium, by occupational group: Managers (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; 5 are below zero. Bars to the left of the line are negative.
1
🇬🇭Ghana
0.2
2
🇧🇴Bolivia
0.2
3
🇧🇷Brazil
0.1
4
🇨🇷Costa Rica
0.1
5
🇵🇾Paraguay
0.1
6
🇦🇲Armenia
-0.0
7
🇸🇻El Salvador
-0.0
8
🇵🇦Panama
-0.0
9
🇦🇷Argentina
-0.1
10
🇵🇪Peru
-0.3

Highlights

As of 2021, Ghana ranks first with 0.2, followed by Bolivia (0.2) and Brazil (0.1).

Across 10 countries and territories, values run from 0.2 (Ghana) to -0.3 (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 — Public sector wage premium, by occupational group: Managers (compared to formal wage employees), 2021. Unit: compared to formal wage employees.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Public sector wage premium, by occupational group: Managers (compared to formal wage employees) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026