Employment Statistics of the Private Sector in Oman
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009The Ministry of National Economy issues a monthly statistics bulletin that covers a variety of development topics. One of the really interesting stuff on it is the report on the private sector. You can view the contents of the latest issue here. (It is bilingual)
The private sector numbers shown in the report are of all the employees who are registered at the Public Authority for Social Insurance.
The statistics at the end of May are as follows:
- 151,341 Omani employees are registered. (male 81%, female 19%)
- 829,298 expatriate employees are registered. (male 90%, female 10%)
- 45% of Omani employees registered receive a salary of RO 140 or less.
- 1.7% of all Omani employees registered receive a salary of RO 1000 or more.
- 91,000 expats are employed as housemaids.
- 120,00 expats work in wholesale, retail sake, and car repairs.
- 319,000 expats work in construction.
For some reason the salary stats of expats are not mentioned, neither the industry details for locals. The report doesn’t say if these salaries are basic salaries or actually paid salaries.
The salaries are just way too shockingly little!
