2025 Living Wage Update Report: Living Wage Report for Rural Oromia, Ethiopia
Abstract
This report provides updated estimates of family living expenses and living wages for rural Oromia in Ethiopia. The update for June 2025 takes into account inflation and changes in payroll deductions since the original Anker living wage study carried out in July 2023 (Seyoum et al., 2023).
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Original Report
2023 Benchmark Report: Living Income and Living Wage Report for Rural Oromia, Ethiopia
Abstract
In this report, we present the living income for the typical household in coffee growing rural Oromia, Ethiopia. For this, we analyzed primary data from the Jimma Zone. We estimate the cost of a basic but decent life, or living income, for a typical family in rural areas of the Jimma Zone as of July 2023. Taking into account labor force participation rates, unemployment rates and part-time employment rates of workers in the area, we estimate the net living wage (take-home-pay) for a full-time worker. These values in US dollars are only indicative as the exchange rate is volatile, and the Birr depreciated against the US dollar after our July 2023 study. Also, these values need to be continuously updated because of Ethiopia's annual inflation rate which is currently running at around 30 percent.
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