‘Number of Kuwaitis in govt sector sees 3% hike’

KUWAIT CITY, July 2: The Al- Shall weekly report said that the average monthly wage for Kuwaitis, male and female, in the government and private sectors amounted to about 1,538 dinars (1,504 dinars at the end of the first quarter of 2022), while it was about 337 dinars for non-Kuwaitis (342 dinars at the end of the first quarter of 2022), noting that all these figures do not include domestic workers, which will leave a significant impact on the wage rates of non-Kuwaitis, if taken into account, nor do they include the impact of employment support allocations for Kuwaitis working in the private sector, reports Al-Qabas daily. The report indicated that the number of Kuwaiti workers in the government sector amounted to about 373 thousand workers, an increase of 3% (362 thousand workers at the end of the first quarter 2022), and their number in the private sector reached about 71.7 thousand workers (72.7 thousand workers at the end of the first quarter 2022), i.e. an increased in the public sector, contrary to the declared objectives.

The report stated that the number of workers in Kuwait at the end of the first quarter of 2023, classified according to number, gender, nationality, wages, ages… etc., amounted to about 2.073 million workers without counting the number of domestic workers, with an increase of 10% (1.885 million workers at the end of the first quarter 2022), according to the latest statistics issued by the Central Statistical Administration, which is a rise - if true - contrary to all the goals of adjusting the demographics.

The report revealed that more than a quarter of the total expatriate workers in Kuwait are domestic workers, whose number as at the end of the first quarter of 2023, according to the tables of the Central Administration for Statistics, amounted to about 780 thousand workers, an increase of about 27.2% (613 thousand workers at the end of the first quarter of 2022). Among the males, who number about 357 thousand workers, and the females, who number about 423 thousand.