The World Bureaucracy Indicators (WWBI) is the cross-national dataset on public sector employment wages developed by World Banks Bureaucracy Lab. It has estimated that?Pakistan and India have the largest public sectors with a share of 60 per cent of formal wage employment.
In the South Asian countries, relative to their public expenditures is on average seven percentage points lower than the global average of 28 percent. In the region, 37 percent of the total public sector workforce in attached in public administration, 28 percent in healthcare and 26 percent in education sector.
As compared to the global average, the share of employees, employed in education and healthcare in public sectors is lower in South Asian countries. Pakistans share of employees, attached with the public sector education sectors is 35 percent.
The womens share in public sector employment is 24 percent in South Asia but it varies from country to country and globally, it is 46 percent.
?The share of women in Pakistan and Afghanistan stands at around 13 percent in public sector but in Maldives, it comes to half of the total public sector employment. In Pakistan, there are only percent women, attached with the public sector administration.
As compared to the wages of private sector employees, the wages of public sector employees is higher in the region if compared globally.
Public sector employees in Pakistan enjoy the highest wage premium as compared to the employees of private sector which is above 60 percent then comes Sri Lank where it is 54 percent and then there is Nepal where the wages of employees of public sector are 40 percent higher than the employees of private sector.
On average, the employees in the public sector in India take the highest salaries in the region. The government economists and nurses are given the wages around 2.6 times more than the global average.
Globally, the public sector is responsible for 16 percent employment, 30 percent of wage employment and 37 percent of formal sector wage employment.
In South Asia, the public sector employment makes up about 12 percent of total employment, 30 percent of wages employment and 39 percent formal wage employment. ?