Public Sector Workers in Greater Accra Earn the Highest Salaries – GSS Report
Public sector workers in the Greater Accra Region receive higher salaries than their counterparts in other regions.
This was contained in the Ghana 2022 Earnings Inequality in the Public Sector report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).
The report covered the average monthly net salary of all public sector workers in all 16 regions of Ghana.
Per the report, the Government of Ghana employs about 688,000 persons, with over one-third (34.8%) of the employees in the Ashanti (18.2%) and Greater Accra (16.5%) regions.
The North East (1.4%) and Savannah regions (1.4%) hold only 2.8 percent of the total number of public sector employees.
It also revealed that public sector workers in the North East earn the least out of all the 16 regions.
According to the report, public sector workers in Greater earn an average net salary of GH₵3,142, while their colleagues in the North East earn GH₵2,212.
“Greater Accra has the highest average monthly net salary (GH₵3,142) with North East recording the lowest (GH₵2,212).”
GSS also indicated that men earn higher monthly net salaries than women across all the regions.
The difference between the average net salary of men and women is GH₵165. This means that the gender pay gap is 6.0 per cent.
“Men have a higher average monthly net salary, of GH₵2,669, while women have an average of GH₵2,504. The average monthly net salary of women is lower than that of men in all 16 regions,” it added.
Meanwhile, GSS disclosed that workers above 60 years earn much higher than any other group in the study.
“The average monthly salary for employees older than 60 years (GH₵14,466) is much higher than that of any other age group, almost five (4.7) times the average of 51 to 60 years, the group with the next highest average.
“For the age groups up to 41 to 50 years, the average monthly net salary increases by between GH₵300 and GH₵500 from one age group to the next, with an increase of around GH₵200 between 41 to 50 years and 51 to 60 years.”
The report stressed that “the average monthly net salary of public sector employees is GH₵2,594.”
“The highest-paid earner takes home GH₵33,855, which is close to 81 times as high as the net salary of the lowest-paid worker (GH₵418). The top 10 percent of the employees with the highest net salaries earn 22 percent of the total net salary. Half of the employees earn only one-third of the total net salary,” GSS stated.