The Miser Loses More: Saving on Public Sector Salaries Leads to Losses Several Times Greater Than the Savings

The issue of public sector pay is a recurring topic in the media and in political debates in the public sphere.In our country, the illusion that public employees must have low salaries has resulted in the inefficient spending of public resources, a fact also confirmed in the reports of the Court of Accounts. The differences between pay levels for the main public services can be seen in the infographic below. It describes the level of pay in public administration, education, health and justice in Moldova and how we, as a country, compare with other reference countries.