Bangladesh, Sept. 4 -- For 1.46 million government employees, the new pay scale brings a long-awaited boost in income.
For millions of private-sector and informal workers, however, the story is very different: wages lag behind inflation as food, rent, transport and household bills continue to climb.
There are currently around 14,64,350 government employees in service, according to official data. But the Labour Force Survey 2024 shows the much larger employment picture.
Bangladesh had about 7.17 crore employed people, of whom 5.80 crore, or 84 per cent, were working in the informal sector. For these workers, there is no equivalent national pay scale.
Abu Taleb, who works for a private real estate company in Dhaka, said that his salary re...