LIVING WAGE REPORT: RURAL KERICHO, KENYA (JUNE 2022)

Emma Blackmore, Martha Anker (), Richard Anker () and Azfar Khan ()
Additional contact information
Martha Anker: Anker Research Institute
Richard Anker: Anker Research Institute
Azfar Khan: Anker Research Institute

No 22-01-05, Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) from Universidad Privada Boliviana

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.

Keywords: Living costs; living wages; Anker Methodology; Kenya; tea (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 J50 J80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 72 pages
Date: 2022-06
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.globallivingwage.org/wp-content/upload ... icho-Kenya-FINAL.pdf

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iad:glliwa:220105

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC) from Universidad Privada Boliviana Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ricardo Nogales C. ().