The government of Ghana spent roughly GHC2.3 billion on salaries and allowances to public sector workers in December 2022.

The Ghana Statistical Service disclosed in its latest report on the ‘Ghana 2022 earnings: Inequality in the public sector’ available to Metro TV.

The government employs around 688,000 people, with Ashanti (18.2%) and Greater Accra (16.5%) accounting for more than one-third (34.8%) of the workforce.

The North East (1.4%) and Savannah (1.4%) regions account for only 2.8 percent of all public sector personnel.

According to the GSS, men earn an average monthly net wage of GHS 2,669 compared to GHS 2,504 for women.

“The difference between the average net salary of men and women is GH₵165. This means that the gender pay gap is 6.0 percent. 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,” GSS said.

The report noted that the average monthly salary for employees older than 60 years is much higher than that of any other age group.

“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.,” GSS noted.

Furthermore, “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”.

By: Bernard Ralph Adams | Metrotvonline.com | Ghana