Wage bill to ease in Q3, SRC projects
NAIROBI, Kenya, Sept 9 – Kenya’s public wage bill is projected to ease in the third quarter of the 2024/2025 financial year, with both the national and Kenya breaking news | Kenya news today |..
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Kenya's public wage bill is projected to decrease in the third quarter of the 2024/2025 financial year, with both national and county governments anticipating lower wage-bill-to-revenue ratios, according to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC).
- County governments' wage-bill-to-revenue ratio is expected to drop from 43.34 percent in Q2 to 35.38 percent in Q3, with expenditure falling to Sh54.66 billion.
- The SRC reviewed 30 requests from public service institutions seeking approvals totaling Sh411.7 million, cutting the advised amount to Sh281.4 million.
- The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) remains the largest public employer, with staff numbers growing to 410,700 in 2024; the total number of public servants surpassed one million, reaching 1.023 million employees.
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Kenya's total public service workforce has surpassed one million employees, partly due to growth at the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). The TSC remains the country's largest public employer, with its workforce expanding by 5.2 percent to 410,700 in 2024. In a related development, the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) projects that the public wage bill will decrease in the third quarter of the 2024/2025 financial year, with both national and county governments anticipating lower wage-bill-to-revenue ratios. Meanwhile, the High Court has suspended the Treasury’s mandatory electronic procurement system, a key IMF-backed reform. The court ordered that both digital and manual submissions be accepted, halting a rollout the Treasury had projected would save KSh150 billion.
