Kenya’s best and worst paying sectors revealed

A customer is served at the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) in Nairobi. FILE PHOTO | NMG

The highest proportion of Kenyans earning more than Sh100,000 is working in the financial and insurance sectors, pointing to an economy with few well-paying jobs amid high unemployment.

Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) data released last week show 39.6 per cent of the employees in the two sectors — which include banks and insurance firms — earned over Sh100,000 per month last year.

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