Civil officials , teachers receive 60% rise in state compensation
Civil officials ,teachers receive 60% rise in state compensation
According to the most recent Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) report, teachers and employees of the national government received 60 percent of the increased salaries allotted to the public sector in the year that ended in June, amounting to Sh40 billion from the most recent Sh65.8 billion pay raise. This underlines the pattern where these two groups are consistently the biggest gainers as Kenya’s public service wage bill rises.
According to the research, wage payments in the public sector increased by 4.8 percent in FY 2021–2022 and are expected to rise by a further 6.5 percent in FY 2022–2023 to reach Sh1.1 trillion. Despite this expansion, it is predicted that the wage bill’s share of nominal GDP will slightly decline to 7.58 percent in FY 2022–23 and 7.19 percent in FY 2023–24.
The Teachers Service Commission’s compensation bill totaled Sh372.14 billion in the fiscal year 2022–2023, an increase of Sh22.24 billion, with roughly one-third of the extra salaries going to the teaching service. County employees received an additional Sh12.09 billion, while national government employees received an additional Sh17.85 billion in the same time frame.
According to the research, the salary bill to ordinary revenue ratio for the public sector remains high at 43.54 percent in 2022–2023. Which suggests that a sizable percentage of the taxes raised by the Kenya Revenue Authority is used to pay public sector employees. In the two years from July 2022 to June 2024, the SRC predicted that teachers and employees of the national government would continue to be the main recipients of salary increases in the public sector. The public salary bill is anticipated to rise by Sh136 billion during this time, with Sh83 billion going to teachers and civil officials. During the same year, county salaries are anticipated to increase by an extra Sh25 billion, while employees of State businesses, colleges, social service industries and commissions will each get a share of the additional Sh136 billion, or 20.7 percent
The national government’s planned spending on personnel emoluments (PE) in the fourth quarter of FY 2022/23 is Sh152.33 billion, up 10.62 percent from Sh137.78 billion in the same period of FY 2021/22. According to the SRC, the overall expenditure is anticipated to rise from Sh405.82 billion in the third quarter to Sh577.87 billion in the fourth quarter.
