Teachers top list of workers earning over Sh100,000

Employees in the education sector made up a third of the additional 2,511 workers who joined the Sh100,000 or more monthly pay club in 2017. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Lecturers, tutors and teachers dominate the list of formal employees who earn above Sh100,000 per month, official statistics show, reflecting their negotiating power.

Workers in the education sector who earned in this pay bracket increased by 805 to 17,001 in 2017 compared to a year earlier, data released by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) on Wednesday indicate.

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