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By Mark Namaswa,
Kenyan professionals are quitting employment in the private sector to join the civil service, parastatals, and constitutional commissions, reports a new study. The mass movement of professionals, adds the report, is also fuelled in part by the lucrative benefits offered in government jobs which include housing, medical, transport, and responsibility allowances among others.
The survey conducted by the Kenya Institute of Public Policy Research and Analysis, (Kippra), also found that a Bachelor’s degree holder in the public service would earn an average of Ksh 83,629—almost double the Ksh 47,968 an employee with similar qualifications would make in the private sector.
“The Kenyan public service is generally a better employer than the private sector and this is attributable to the practice of paying multiple allowances in the public sector,” said Kippra’s Executive Director, John Omiti. The study which was carried out by Kippra on behalf of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission also showed workers preferred the public service over the private sector as the jobs rarely placed heavy emphasis on productivity and performance unlike the scenario in the private sector.
But this according to SRC’s chairperson Sarah Serem, has impacted negatively on performance. “In the public service, productivity is really wanting yet the wage bill has been going up,” she says. Her sentiments are also shared by Mr. Omiti who adds “This is fuelling the wage bill and denies the private sector the expertise required to drive growth.”
In June last year, the public wage bill in Kenya rose to a record Ksh458.8 billion which is double what the figures were five years ago, thanks to frequent salary and allowance reviews. The Kippra survey noted that these figures represented approximately 12.2 percent of the GDP of which just one percent reduction would yield Ksh 76 billion. This amount, it pointed out, if saved would be able to service construction of two additional superhighways or level 5 hospitals in each county.
Kenya’s public workforce including teachers, civil servants, parastatal and employees of State-owned companies numbers approximately 615,000. Kippra’s projections indicate Kenya’s wage bill by June 2014 will top at Ksh 521 billion
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