SONA 2019: Public sector salaries up 10% – Akufo-Addo

Salaries of public sector workers went up by 10% this year, President Nana Akufo-Addo has said in his third state of the nation address to parliament on Thursday, 21 February 2019.

Nana Akufo-Addo said: “Workers in the public sector began the year on a good note after receiving a 10% increase in their salaries on top of the 11% increase of 2018.

“41,000 workers in the informal sector were also enrolled onto Tier three pension schemes with pensioners seeing an average increase of 11% in their monthly pension schemes with the lowest income brackets receiving a 14.7% increment.”

Source: Class