Accountants earned bigger salaries on average compared with doctors and other professionals in the country.
Data from the 2016 Economic Survey shows that Government employees in the financial and insurance activities were on average paid an annual salary of Sh1.6 million, which translates to about Sh130,000 every month.
The second best paying professionals working in the public sector were in the transportation and storage industry, who took home on average Sh122,000.
“Within the public sector, finance and insurance activities recorded the highest earnings, while mining and quarrying recorded the lowest,” the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) said in its survey.
Accountants have remained not just the most pampered government employees but also the most exposed in terms of corruption, due to their positions.
On the flipside, government employees in the mining and quarrying departments were the poorest paid in the year, earning on average a salary of Sh30,000, which is four times less than the average salaries for the best paid employees in government.
They were followed by employees in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sectors who were paid on average Sh32,000 a month. The third worst paid employees were in the public administration and defence and compulsory social security departments. These cadre of employees earned on average Sh42,500.
The story was different in the private sector with employees working for international organisations such as the World Bank, diplomats, and foreign missions earning the biggest pay.
On average, an employee working for extraterritorial organisations and bodies was paid an average salary of Sh240,000 in 2015.
“In the private sector, activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies recorded the highest annual average earnings followed by finance and insurance activities, while water supply, sewerage and waste management activities recorded the lowest annual average earnings.
The second best paid professionals in the private sector are those in financial and insurance activities, followed by those in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply. In the fourth position are those working in the administrative and support service activities sectors.
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