Salaries and perks for MPs increased by 28 percent or Sh3.1 billion in the year to June after the lawmakers pushed for the suspension of pay cuts by the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC), adding to the heavy burden that public and State officers have placed on tax revenues.
Because of this, and other pay reviews affected different cadres of public and State officers, including county government employees, Kenya’s payroll bill is 17 per cent above the global average of 35 per cent for middle-income countries, a club that Kenya recently joined after recalculating its economic size.
