Morocco’s Civil Service Minimum Wage Surges 81% in Decade, Report Shows

In a recent report on purchasing power published on the website of the Prime Minister’s Office, Saâd-Eddine El Othmani’s department, indicated that in the civil service, the lowest salary of a civil servant has gone from 1800 to 3250 DH in ten years, an increase of 81% between 2010 and 2020. Over the same period, the average salary of a public sector employee, which was 6550 dirhams in 2010, reached 8147 dirhams in 2020, an increase of 24.38% or a progression of about 2.1% per year, reported Le360.

This report, which provides the assessment of government achievements from 2017 to 2021, shows that in 2020 in Morocco, the average net salary in the civil service is 3.2 times higher than the gross national product per capita, while in Tunisia this increase is 1.5, in Jordan (1.4) and 1.1 in Turkey, the report said.