Domestic staff pay surges to Sh90bn in a decade

Domestic workers’ take home pay jumped to Sh90 billion in a decade.

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The take-home pay by domestic workers in Kenya almost doubled over the past decade, growing 75.7 percent from Sh51.3 billion in 2015 to Sh90.2 billion last year, new data shows.

Data by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) represent households directly paying wages and allowances to domestic staff and other support workers, highlighting enhanced shifts in social and economic patterns.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.