The number of Kenyans earning below Sh30,000 per month has risen to nearly half of the total employed workers captured in government records, laying bare the prevailing income inequality. Data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS), to be released this week, will show that the number of salaried workers taking home below Sh30,000 has grown by 154,945 members or 14 percent to 1,279,982. This equals 46.3 percent of the total 2,765,159 salaried workers captured in the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) database as of the end of December last year. The data shows that 183,061 of the 394,975 additional workers that have joined formal employment in the past four years have been given salaries of below Sh30,000 despite the rising cost of living. A majority of the workers (69 percent) take home below Sh30,000 in the private sector, showing that government jobs pay higher salaries. Dominant sectors of the economy such as education and agriculture, which account for 34.2 percent of gross domestic product, transport (eight percent), manufacturing (7.7 percent) and real estate (seven percent) paid the least. Education had the highest number of below Sh30,000 earners at 274,152, 21.4 percent of the workers in this range of salaries.