| Abstract |
Formal Sector Employment and Earnings is an annual survey conducted by the Office of the Chief Government Statistician, Labour Statistics Unit under Social Statistics Department. 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 of employees of formal establishments from both government and private sectors, to obtain annual and average salaries paid to employees, wage bills used for employees, also to obtain the total number of new worker employed, number of new vacancies available, number of retired and fired/quit 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 seven chapters, namely: Concept, Definition and Survey Methodology, Employment, Wage rate, Cash earnings, Wage bill, New Employees and New vacancies, retired and fired/quit employees.
Employment
The total employment in formal sector was 68,632 out of whom 36,012 (55.1 percent) were males and 32,620 (44.9 percent) were females. Out of total employment, 54.2 percent were engaged in Government sector, 35.8 percent in Private sector and 10.0 percent in Parastatals. Classification by terms of employment reported that 70 percent (47,864 employees) were regular employees. Contractual and casual employees comprised 28 percent (19,489 employees) and 2 percent (1,279 employees) respectively. Non-citizen employees account for only 1.4 percent of total employment. The distribution of employment by industry shows that about 26.7 percent of employees were engaged in Education sector while 18.8 percent were in Accommodation and food services activities. The industry with the least number of employees was real estate which has 0.2 percent of total employment.
Wage Rate
Most (40.4 percent) of regular citizen employees earn between TZS 300,000 and TZS 399,999 per
month. About 39.0 percent of the government and 49.0 percent of private sector regular citizen
employees earn between TZS 300,000 and TZS 399,999 while 55.5 percent of government
parastatals employees earn 600,000 and above per month. Both male and female regular citizen
employees account for 38.2 and 35.9 percent earn between TZS 300,000 and TZS 399,999 per
month respectively.
Cash Earnings
The average monthly salary of regular citizen employees was TZS 447,857 per month where males earn TZS 477,107 and females earn TZS 428,929 per month. The average monthly salary of Government Parastatal employees was observed to be TZS 697,437; the Government employees' average salary was 742,257 while for Private employees it was 455,988.
Annual Wage Bill
According to this survey, the annual wage bill is the employer's cost which includes annual salary, free rations and other benefits. The percentage share of annual salary was high compared with percentage share of other benefit and free rations. On average, the percentage share of annual salary from the total wage bill was 78.4 percent while the percentage share of other benefits was 17.9 percent.
New Employees
The total number of employees employed in 2021/22 was 1,780 persons of whom 991 employees (55.7 percent) were males and 789 employees (44.3 percent) were females. Out of total new employees, 9.0 percent were employed in the Government sector, 2.1 percent in Government Parastatals and 88.9 percent in the Private sector.
New Vacancies, Retired and Fired/Quit Employees
The findings indicate that, the largest proportion of new vacancies in 2021/22 were in government sector (85.6 percent) compared with the remaining sectors. However, the result shows that, the total number of retired employees in 2021/22 was 632 persons of whom 430 persons were in the Government sector, 95 persons in Government Parastatals and 107 persons in the Private sector. In addition, both Government and Government Parastatals sectors had higher proportions of male fired/quit employees than female employees unlike Private sector. |
