{"id":6779,"date":"2019-11-26T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T05:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6779"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"half-of-kenyans-earn-below-sh30000-every-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/26\/half-of-kenyans-earn-below-sh30000-every-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Half Of Kenyans Earn Below Sh30,000 Every Month"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Daily\nNation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number\nof Kenyans earning below Sh30,000 per month has risen to nearly half of the\ntotal employed workers captured in government records, laying bare the\nprevailing income inequality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data from\nthe Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), to be released this week, will\nshow that the number of salaried workers taking home below Sh30,000 has grown\nby 154,945 members or 14 per cent to 1,279,982.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This\nequals 46.3 per cent of the total 2,765,159 salaried workers captured in the\nKenya Revenue Authority (KRA) database as of the end of December last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Formal Employment <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The data\nshows that 183,061 of the 394,975 additional workers that have joined formal\nemployment in the past four years have been given salaries of below Sh30,000\ndespite the rising cost of living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A majority\nof the workers (69 per cent) take home below Sh30,000 in the private sector,\nshowing that government jobs pay higher salaries. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/business\/Half-of-Kenyans-earn-below-Sh30-000-per-month\/996-5361166-7mys4w\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation The number of Kenyans earning below Sh30,000 per month has risen to nearly half of the total employed workers captured in government records, laying bare the prevailing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}