Benchmark Report: Living Wage Report and 2024 Update for Rural Kericho, Kenya
2024 Living Wage Update Report: Living Wage Report for Rural Kericho, Kenya
This report provides updated estimates of family living expenses and living wages for Kericho, one of the main tea growing regions in Kenya. The update for 2024 takes into account inflation and changes in payroll deductions since the original Anker living wage study carried out in June 2022 (Blackmore, Anker, Anker, and Khan, 2022).
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Original Report
2022 Benchmark Report: Living Wage Report for Rural Kericho, Kenya
Abstract
This report estimates a living wage for rural Kericho, which is one of the main tea growing regions of Kenya, using the Anker Methodology. Kericho is located in the South Rift of the Great Rift Valley approximately 256 km from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. Globally, Kenya is the third largest tea producer after China and India, and number one exporter of black tea in the world market. It is renowned for the quality of its tea, thanks to good climatic conditions, high altitudes, and fertile soils. In 2019, the tea sector in Kenya accounted for 25 per cent of total foreign earnings and 1.5 per cent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Our estimate of a living wage for full-time workers in rural Kericho, Kenya is 26,932 KES (224 USD) per month. This is the wage necessary for a worker and their family to be able to afford a nutritious low-cost diet, healthy housing, adequate health care, education through secondary school for children, and all other essential expenses, plus a small margin for sustainability. This value was calculated for June 2022 and covers the tea growing regions across rural Kericho
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