Cyprus Mail reports:
Around 65 per cent of civil servants (some 35,000) are paid wages that are substantially higher than the national average.
And if that wasn’t enough,
The discrepancy between the wages of civil servants and the general population may be substantial, yet even this is slightly misleading. Civil servants’ salaries weigh heavily in calculating the average national salary. It follows that the figure for the average national salary, as given by the Statistical Service, is “bumped up” by the high wages received by civil servants, thereby concealing the true extent of the difference between public and private sectors.
The numbers breakdown follows:
Civil servants wages (May 2011)
Salary Number of recipients
€0 – €1500 10,871
€1501 – €2500 16,465
€2501 – €3500 14,449
€3501 – €4500 6,866
€4501 and above 5,360
Read the rest of the article for more details.
Its is no secret really. This has been floating around for years that civil servants get payed quite a lot.
Yes, it’s not a secret. However now that the discussions of cutbacks are floating around, it’s very useful to have the numbers in hand.
True. One thing that’s interesting is the number of people getting over 4,5k compared to the other numbers