Lebanon - Compensation of employees

Compensation of employees (current LCU)

The value for Compensation of employees (current LCU) in Lebanon was 5,611,920,000,000 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 22 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,611,920,000,000 in 2019 and a minimum value of 1,761,100,000,000 in 2001.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

Year Value
1997 1,938,000,000,000
1998 1,775,000,000,000
1999 2,011,000,000,000
2000 1,919,600,000,000
2001 1,761,100,000,000
2002 1,815,100,000,000
2003 1,911,770,000,000
2004 1,997,500,000,000
2005 2,000,930,000,000
2006 2,113,810,000,000
2007 2,296,550,000,000
2008 2,563,540,000,000
2009 3,263,840,000,000
2010 3,180,400,000,000
2011 3,485,960,000,000
2012 3,954,120,000,000
2013 4,001,960,000,000
2014 4,143,800,000,000
2015 4,307,430,000,000
2016 4,463,960,000,000
2017 5,052,330,000,000
2018 5,598,100,000,000
2019 5,611,920,000,000

Compensation of employees (% of expense)

Compensation of employees (% of expense) in Lebanon was 23.98 as of 2019. Its highest value over the past 21 years was 27.33 in 1999, while its lowest value was 19.12 in 2008.

Definition: Compensation of employees consists of all payments in cash, as well as in kind (such as food and housing), to employees in return for services rendered, and government contributions to social insurance schemes such as social security and pensions that provide benefits to employees.

Source: International Monetary Fund, Government Finance Statistics Yearbook and data files.

See also:

Year Value
1998 25.93
1999 27.33
2000 24.18
2001 22.82
2002 22.17
2003 20.72
2004 23.33
2005 23.00
2006 20.08
2007 19.44
2008 19.12
2009 21.25
2010 21.23
2011 21.94
2012 22.24
2013 21.22
2014 22.03
2015 24.99
2016 22.40
2017 24.32
2018 23.05
2019 23.98

Classification

Topic: Public Sector Indicators

Sub-Topic: Government finance