Ethiopia Scales up Civil Servant Salary

In a bid to minimize the negative impact of high inflation, the Ethiopian government this week increased civil servants’ salary from 35 – 39 percent raising the minimum civil servant salary to 444 birr (around 26 US dollars at the prevailing exchange rates) from 320 birr.
According to Juneydin Sado, Minister of Civil Service who briefed media this week in his office, the salary scale of civil servants who used to earn below 600 birr (around 36 US dollars at the prevailing exchange rates) monthly will benefit more by the salary adjustment.

In addition to the 39 percent increment, their salary scale will be levered one step.   Hence, the minimum salary of a civil servant in Ethiopia will be 444 birr, according to Juneydin.

Civil servants salary at the higher position, which used to start from 3,152 birr (around 187 US dollars at the prevailing exchange rates) will now increase by 38 percent and reach 4,343 birr (around 257 US dollars at the prevailing exchange rates). This will be increasable up to 6,460 birr (around 382 US dollars at the prevailing exchange rates), according to the minister. 

Ethiopia, which has been spending 15 billion 700 million birr (around 929 million US dollars at the prevailing exchange rates) per annum for a total of 1,017,351 civil servants in the country, will spend additional 4 billion 76 million birr (around 282 million US dollars at the prevailing exchange rates) as a result of the salary increment.