Omani pay in the private sector dominated by very low paying jobs - Muscati post

As the global economy keeps stutering, Muscati has posted (finally!! ;-) ) and lists some data on the base salary excluding allowances of Omani in the Oman economy.

Muscati

To conclude: out of 131,000 Omanis in the private sector, 110,000 of them are on pay of RO. 200 [~$500] a month or less. That's about 84%. ...
Salary over RO. 2000 [~US$5000] a month: only 470 employees.

The most shocking are the really low McJob nature shown by the stats.

A more sensible set of data to put the previous post on the press 'analysis' (and I agree way too optimistic).

Thanks Muscati - glad you're back. I trust you are one of the 470...

Omani Employment

In a press release a couple of days ago I saw this gem:

MUSCAT — The number of national manpower employed in the private sector establishments until November 18 stood at 55,694.
[Times of Oman Article]


I still find that incredible. Incredibly low that is.

If the population of Omani's is around 2.5 million, and around half are of working age, that means only 54,000 out of more than a million people are working in paid employment in private companies? 5%??? Maybe someone left a zero off the end?

I have to presume this does not include owners of their own businesses, taxi drivers, etc etc. But when you remember that approx 80,000 Omani youngsters graduate high school every year, you can see the present and looming problem.

Massive under- and un-employment.

It is and will continue to be an issue for the entire Gulf region. People are still having way too many children, and it is still much much more attractive for employers to employ expat workers to actually get work done cheaply and effectively. Omani staff are - and I realise this is a generalisation - often just uncompetitive.

If this does not change, and soon, it will all end in tears.