How Much Public Sector Staff Cost Us

The public sector is indispensable to the functioning of a society. Normally, the Government provides public facilities and services to meet the needs of its citizens, which are paid for from public funds. Public sector institutions and staff are the main instruments through which the Government fulfils its commitments to ensure citizens' basic needs. The idea for this infographic came from an attempt to find out the real size of the public sector and how much it costs each citizen of the Republic of Moldova to pay the salary of an employee in this sector. Thus, based on data on staff units for the period 2005-2012 and staff expenditure for the same period, we have tried to present the evolution of these two parameters.The definition of the public sector The National Bureau of Statistics offers the following definition of the public sector: all units financed from the state budget, the state social insurance budget, the budgets of administrative-territorial units and from special funds, regardless of sectoral subordination.