Salary data by sector of activity

In Mali, collective agreements set minimum salaries by professional category. The problem is that these grids were established a long time ago: they no longer match the cost of living or what is actually paid on today's job market.

In practice, a company sticking to the collective minimum would struggle to hire a qualified professional — and struggle even more to keep them. This is why companies and organisations here pay, on top of the minimum salary set by the agreement, a top-up called a salary supplement ("sursalaire"). This supplement adjusts pay to the level actually practised on the market.

To set that level, employers do not proceed at random. They carry out salary surveys: they compare what other organisations in the same sector pay, along with fringe benefits (transport, housing, health, bonuses, etc.). From this data they build their own salary grid by category (a company grading scale), tailored to their organisation.

In short: the salaries shown below do comply with the collective-agreement minimums. They deliberately exceed them, in order to stay competitive and attractive.