According to the Ministry of Finance (MoF), “Salaries, Wages and Related Benefits”, which comprises the basic salaries, allowances and indemnities, increased by 5.39% year-on-year (y-o-y) during the first 10 months of the year to $2.44B compared to $2.32B in the same period of 2013. Salaries and wages, which constitute the largest component of the government primary expenditures, saw their share augment from 28% to 32% by October 2014.
Basic salaries, which owned up to 72.95% of “Salaries, Wages and Related Benefits”, augmented by a yearly 2.76% to $1.78B up to October 2014. This was mostly driven by the 5.34% y-o-y increase in salaries of “Military personnel” totaling $1.14B. However, it was partly offset by the respective 1.01% and 2.77% yearly declines in salaries of “Education Personnel” and “Civilian Personnel” summing up to $455.21M and $186.46M.
Furthermore, “Allowances”, which constituted 4.57% of “Salaries, Wages and Related Benefits”, grew by 9.34% y-o-y to $341.74M by October 2014. This was mainly on the back of “Allowances to Military Personnel” increasing yearly by 9.19% to $339.08M.
On the other hand “Indemnities” declined by 2.89% to $111.48M. This downturn was attributed by the annual 15.38% fall in “Indemnities for Education Personnel” to $291.97M during Jan-Oct 2014.
| Basic Salaries | Total | ||||
| Jan-Oct 2013 | Jan-Oct 2014 | Jan-Oct 2013 | Jan-Oct 2014 | ||
| Military Personnel | $1.08B | $1.14B | $1.44B | $1.52B | |
| Army | $689.45M | $725.95M | $913.74M | $957.53M | |
| Internal Security Forces | $313.87M | $323.82M | $416.72M | $443.93M | |
| General Security Forces | $59.06M | $69.01M | $79.63M | $94.23M | |
| State Security Forces | $18.58M | $19.91M | $25.88M | $29.20M | |
| Education Personnel | $459.85M | $455.21M | $494.36M | $495.65M | |
| Civil Personnel , of which | $191.77M | $186.46M | $252.16M | $248.84M | |
| Employees Cooperative | – | – | $108.83M | $149.97M | |
| Customs Salaries | – | – | $24.55M | $18.58M | |
Source: Ministry of Finance