Better wages attract more workers to the services sector

A worker sprays a potato crop with pesticides and herbicides in Elburgon, Nakuru County. PHOTO | JOHN NJOROGE | NMG

Almost half of Kenya’s working population is in the service sector amid a shift from agriculture due to declining wages and salaries.

A World Bank report shows the share of Kenyans employed in the service sector rose by eight per cent to 42 per cent in the four years to 2019, as jobs in farming stagnated at 47 per cent.

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