The Ghana 2022 Earnings Inequality in the Public Sector report by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) has revealed that the average net salary of men takes on women with about 6 per cent.

The report indicates that men have a higher average monthly net salary of 2,669.00 while women have an average of 2,504.00

This average income of women records lower than men in all 16 regions.

Also, the difference is highest for employees in the Upper West region with men earning an average 348.00 more than women, a gender pay gap of 13 percent.

The reports also shows that the difference between men and women is the least in the Central Region with women earning 124.00 less than men, recording a gender gap of 5.0 percent.

This maiden report by the Statistical Service is aimed at helping thr government of Ghana to deploy a universal principle of equal pay for work of equal value, which restricts the scope of potential factors that will
drive earnings inequality.

Males in the public sector constitutes about 54.4 percent of the total number of employees.

The total number of employees on the December 2022 payroll was 687,984.

By Leonora Enyonam Annoh | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana