Real salaries reported by people across the region.
Three things about the place behind the numbers.
Guyana sits on the South American mainland and borders Venezuela, Brazil and Suriname, yet it is a founding member of CARICOM and the secretariat is in Georgetown. It is the only country in South America with English as its official language, and the national game is cricket rather than football.
Commercially viable oil was found offshore in 2015 and the first barrels were produced at the end of 2019. The economy has since expanded at rates no other country has matched, and the knock-on demand for engineers, accountants, logistics staff and construction labour has pulled salaries up sharply.
Kaieteur Falls in the interior drops around 226 metres in a single uninterrupted fall, roughly four times the height of Niagara. What makes it unusual is combining that height with real volume, in rainforest with no town, no gift shop and no railing anywhere near it.
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1 report · Guyana
GYD $21,600,000
per year≈ USD $103,300 · today’s rate
1 reportReported 2024
Stated in Parliament by the Minister of Agriculture in a written answer on the 2024 Financial Papers, published December 2024. GYD $1,800,000 a month, shown here as a year's pay. The same answer gives GYD $2,000,000 a month for the previous chief executive under the former administration. It does not say whether the figure is salary alone or salary with allowances.
