center detection "shawl" Yesterday, Saturday, the Kuwaiti economist revealed the average monthly wage for Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis in the government and private sectors.
According to the weekly report of the Kuwaiti Economic Center, the average monthly wage for Kuwaitis in the government and private sectors amounted to about 1493 dinars ($4871), an increase of two dinars from what it was in 2021 (1491 dinars -4861 dollars – at the end of 2021).
As for non-Kuwaitis, the center explained that it is about 338 dinars ($1,102) in 2022, which is the same percentage for the year before 2021.
He noted that all these numbers "It does not include domestic workers, which will have a significant downward impact on non-Kuwaiti wage rates, if taken into account, nor does it include the impact of employment support allocations for Kuwaitis working in the private sector.".
He explained that the number of workers in Kuwait amounted to about 2.037 million workers, excluding the number of domestic workers, with an increase of 8.2% (1.882 million workers at the end of 2021).
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 2022, according to the tables of the Central Administration for Statistics, amounted to about 753 thousand workers, an increase of about 26.9% (594 thousand workers at the end of 2021).
And in February of last year, labor market data issued by the Kuwaiti Central Administration for Statistics revealed that the average salary of citizens increased by more than 9.3%, amounting to 127 dinars (414 dollars) during the last 6 years, as it reached by the end of September 2021 a value of 1490 dinars (4861 dollars). dollars) compared to 1,363 dinars (4,447 dollars) for the same period in 2015.
