The National Audit Office report for the years 2016-2017 stated that a government official received salaries reaching up to 138000 BD, while off work.

Member of the Financial and Economic Affairs Committee at the Bahrain Shura Council, Rida Faraj, said that the projected labor force adopted finance in the state General Budget is the same for years 2017 and 2018.

The final account of Bahrain’s 2016 fiscal year showed that the total incomes and salaries spending for government employees in the past years reached 1.429 billion BD, around 75.2% of the total revenues, which reach 1.898 billion BD that year.