President Uhuru Kenyatta will November 26 formally open the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) 3-day conference on transfroming Kenya’s economy through a fiscally-sustainable public wage bill.
The meeting comes at a time the government is barely able to cope with a ballooning wage bill, interest on huge loans, pending clearance of pensions against low revenue shortfalls.
SRC says that the public sector wage bill has shown a positive trend from 57.33% of revenue in 2013/4 to 48.1% in 2018/9. The SRC is targetting to bring down the public wage bill to 35%, which is an uphill task.