More than 99,000 employees earn less than $1000 in Oman

More than 99,000 employees earn less than $1000 in Oman

Ibrahim Al Maimani, a data analyst and social activist, said that as per the March 2022 report of the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), the total number of Omani workers in the two sectors is 446,000, including 172,455 (39 percent) in the government sector and 273,452 (61 percent) in the private sector.

“They could be classified into five categories in terms of their salary — 17,394 (10 percent) employees receive a salary between OMR325 and OMR400, 32,027 (18 percent) got salaries ranging between OMR400 and OMR700,” he added.

Al-Maimani further said that 72,185 (42 percent) employees received salaries between OMR700 and OMR1,000, and 47,471 (28 percent) got salaries ranging between OMR1,000 and OMR2,000 while 3,378 (2 percent) received salaries above OMR2,000.

Al-Maimani also said that the total number of Omanis working in the private sector was 273,452 till February 2022, with 81,692 (30 percent) employees receiving salaries between OMR325 and OMR400. The second category of employees, numbering 106,949 (39 percent), had salaries ranging between OMR400 and OMR700.

The number of employees who had a salary between OMR1,000 and OMR2,000 was 34,341 (13 percent), and finally, 17,378 employees (6 percent) received salaries above OMR2,000.

Speaking exclusively with Times of Oman, His Excellency Younis Al-Mandhari,