Lesotho - Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees (current LCU)

The value for Compensation of employees (current LCU) in Lesotho was 5,891,548,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 37 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,994,686,000 in 2018 and a minimum value of 57,365,000 in 1982.

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
1982 57,365,000
1983 60,631,000
1984 76,777,000
1985 106,681,000
1987 117,187,000
1988 169,968,000
1989 174,348,000
1991 277,628,700
1992 327,093,000
1993 372,808,100
1994 469,650,300
1995 634,328,500
1996 628,271,400
1997 731,849,600
1998 865,700,500
1999 787,561,700
2000 902,841,100
2001 940,489,000
2002 1,080,162,000
2003 1,100,500,000
2004 1,188,800,000
2005 1,291,600,000
2006 1,394,891,000
2007 1,658,234,000
2008 2,025,382,000
2009 2,691,930,000
2010 2,820,836,000
2011 3,072,686,000
2012 3,264,477,000
2013 3,978,937,000
2014 4,315,605,000
2015 4,929,670,000
2016 5,277,442,000
2017 5,436,101,000
2018 5,994,686,000
2019 5,891,548,000

Compensation of employees (% of expense)

Compensation of employees (% of expense) in Lesotho was 43.46 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 32 years was 53.76 in 1995, while its lowest value was 29.85 in 2008.

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
1987 36.66
1988 42.92
1989 38.84
1991 48.58
1992 46.02
1993 48.16
1994 45.86
1995 53.76
1996 51.57
1997 48.53
1998 42.67
1999 40.83
2000 43.37
2001 39.41
2002 38.26
2003 37.03
2004 37.81
2005 36.11
2006 31.41
2007 33.75
2008 29.85
2009 34.97
2010 40.54
2011 40.22
2012 40.06
2013 40.79
2014 42.51
2015 42.81
2016 41.81
2017 44.54
2018 45.15
2019 43.46

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance