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Kenya’s pay divide deepens as NGO salaries increase
In the public sector, the top paying jobs were in the accommodation and food services at Sh253,474, transportation and storage at Sh221,025 and financial services sectors at Sh196,425.
Employees of foreign multilateral and non-governmental agencies widened their position as the highest paid private sector workers in Kenya in 2025 ahead of their counterparts in the energy and financial services.
The well-funded foreign organisations paid their staff an average of Sh372,399 per month last year, representing a wage increase of 5.5 percent from their average pay of Sh353,048 in 2024, new data published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) in the Economic Survey 2026 report shows.
