Ghana - Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees (current LCU)

The value for Compensation of employees (current LCU) in Ghana was 22,219,030,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 29 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 22,219,030,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 8,228,000 in 1990.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1990 8,228,000
1991 10,557,100
1992 17,110,000
1993 22,759,700
2001 255,140,300
2002 449,970,600
2003 607,284,000
2004 744,173,800
2005 887,435,900
2006 1,234,702,000
2007 1,551,830,000
2008 2,147,288,000
2009 2,635,554,000
2010 3,315,626,000
2011 4,855,326,000
2012 7,177,627,000
2013 9,479,059,000
2014 9,448,570,000
2015 18,159,790,000
2016 14,164,790,000
2017 16,776,240,000
2018 19,612,040,000
2019 22,219,030,000

Compensation of employees (% of expense)

Compensation of employees (% of expense) in Ghana was 35.59 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 18 years was 45.98 in 2002, while its lowest value was 32.75 in 2014.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
2001 35.82
2002 45.98
2003 41.69
2004 39.67
2005 40.11
2006 42.26
2007 37.51
2008 34.63
2009 39.95
2010 35.73
2011 38.40
2012 35.45
2013 39.49
2014 32.75
2015 32.97
2016 35.27
2017 36.78
2018 36.11
2019 35.59

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance