Act now to seal leakages in public service payroll

The ballooning public wage bill makes it a priority for the Government to identify human resource solutions and internal controls to curb the trend.

Over the last six years, there has been an upward growth trend, with the annual growth rate in the wage bill averaged over the last 3 years reportedly approximated to be 20.9 per cent (for 2012/13 alone, the increase was 34.3 per cent), well above the nominal GDP growth (approximated at 14 per cent) and the population growth rate estimated at 3 per cent.