2024 Update Report: Living Wage and Living Income Report for Rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

This report provides updated estimates for living income and living wage in Rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (PK) in Pakistan, with a focus on tobacco growing districts of Charsadda, Mardan and Swabi districts. The update for June 2024 takes into account inflation and changes in payroll deductions since the original Anker living wage study carried out in April 2021 (Dawani, Hasan & Sayeed, 2021).

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Original Report

2021 Benchmark Report: Living Income Report for Rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Abstract

This report provides an estimate for the costs of living for a reference family for rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), with a focus on Charsadda, Mardan and Swabi districts. There was a further focus on tobacco farmers as Pakistan is the one of the largest producers of tobacco in the world, and this is mainly grown in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan.

This study uses the Anker methodology (Anker and Anker 2017) to estimate the cost of living for a typical size family in rural KP for a basic but decent living standard, or the living income.

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Previous Updates

2023 Living Wage Update Report: Living Wage Report for Rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

2022 Living Wage Update Report: Living Wage Report for Rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

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