| Abstract |
Formal Employment and Earnings is an annual survey conducted by the Office of the Chief Government Statistician, Labour Statistics Unit under Social Statistics Section. The main objective of the survey is to provide information on employment and earnings of employees to be used for planning, policy formulation, and in decision-making processes. The specific objectives were to obtain the total number ofemployees of formal establishments from both government and private sectors, to obtain information about salaries paid to employees and wage bills used for employees. The survey collects information on employees, such as total number,sex, citizenship,employment term, earnings, allowances and other benefit paid to employees.This report illustrates the methods and findings of the survey. It consists of six chapters,namely:Concept, Definition and Survey Methodology, Employment, Wage rate, Cash earnings, Wage bill and New Employees.
Employment
The total employment in formal sector was 56,140 out of whom 31,341 (55.8 percent) were males and 24,799 (44.2 percent) were females. Out of total employment, 55.8 percent were engaged in Government sector, 34.3 percent in Private sector and 9.9 percent in Parastatals. Classification by terms of employment reported that 71.4 percent (40,237 employees) were regular employees. Contractual and casual employees comprised 24.4 percent (13,694 employees) and 4.2 percent (2,339 employees) respectively. Non-citizen employees account for only 1.2 percent of total employment.The distribution of employment by industry shows that about 27.8 percent of employees were engaged in Education sector while 18.7 percent were in Public administration. The industry with the least number of employees was real estate which has 0.1 percent of total employment.
Wage Rate
On average, more than half (69.2 percent) of regular citizen employees earn between 200,000 -399,999 shillings per months. In the Government sector the majority of regular citizen employees (39.8 percent) earn between TZS 200,000 and TZS 299,999 while for parastatals the majority(32.2 percent) earn 500,000 and above. For private sector, 56.3 percent of employees earn under TZS 200,000. The majority of both male and female regular citizen employees (35.0 and 35.1 percent) earn between TZS 200,000-299,999 per month respectively.
Cash Earnings
The average monthly salary of regular employees was TZS 478,958 per month where males earn TZS 481,789 and females earn TZS 476,052 per month. The average monthly salary of Parastatal employees was observed to be TZS 670,737, the Government employees' average salary was 514,579 while for private employees it was 334,755.
Annual Wage Bill
According to this survey, the annual wage bill is the employers cost which includes annual salary, free rations and other benefits. The percentage share of annual salary was high compared to percentage share of other benefit and free rations. On average, the percentage share of annual salary from the total wage bill was 73.8 percent while the percentage share of other benefits was 22.2 percent.
New Workers Employed
The total number of employees employed in 2016/17 was 1,601 persons of whom 896 employees(56 percent) were males and 705 employees (44 percent) were females. Out of total new employees, 34.4 percent were employed in the Government sector, 2.4 percent in Government Parastatals and 63.3 percent in the Private sector. |
