Answer to Question #199979 in Microeconomics for Ntwisiso Baloyi

Question

A brief explanation of the public wage bill in SA –(Its advisable to illustrate trends by means of graphs and tables showing

Answer 1

About a third of South Africa's budget is spent on the wages of 1.2 million governmental servants, including national and municipal government officials, doctors, teachers, and police. This is the government's wage bill.

According to official projections, it would spend approximately 629 billion rands ($41.3 billion) on public sector pay in the fiscal year ending next month, rising to 697 billion rands by 2022/23.