Padang Panjang’s Top-Income Informal Workers Have Only SD
West Sumatra's informal workers averaged Rp1.77M/month in 2024; Padang Panjang's SD workers earned Rp3.65M, Mentawai's least-educated just Rp817K.
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Padang Panjang, a small city in West Sumatra, upends the usual link between schooling and pay: workers with only elementary school netted Rp3.
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65 million a month in 2024, the highest among the province’s informal sector, beating high school graduates.
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Key findings Highest earner: Informally employed workers in Padang Panjang with only SD (elementary) education took home Rp3.65 million per month.
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Lowest earner: In the remote Mentawai Islands, those who never attended school or didn't finish primary earned just Rp817,000 monthly.
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Top-heavy city: Padang Panjang filled all three top spots, with its overall informal worker average at Rp3.05 million and SMA-to-atas workers at Rp2.98 million.
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Education inversion: In Padang Panjang, workers with only elementary schooling out-earned their high school counterparts—a pattern not seen elsewhere in the province.
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Province average: Across West Sumatra, the typical informal worker netted Rp1.77 million per month, with Mentawai and Pesisir Selatan trailing.
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West Sumatra's informal workers averaged Rp1.77M/month in 2024; Padang Panjang's SD workers earned Rp3.65M, Mentawai's least-educated just Rp817K.