How bloated is the Phil. bureaucracy?
Going through the Civil Service Commission (CSC) figures, there are only 1.5 million government personnel: 1M in national government agencies (NGAs) + 100,000 government corporations (GOCCs) and financial institutions (GFIs) + 400,000 in local government units (LGUs).
But my estimate is that there could be3.5 million government personnel. How come?
LGUs alone, there are around 42,000 in the country. A barangay (brgy.) would have a minimum of 14 personnel: brgy. captain + 7 brgy. councillors + brgy. secretary + brgy. treasurer + head of Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) + head of brgy security + brgy. nutritionist + brgy. health officer. Some barangays that can mobilize other revenues aside from what they get from the national government, the IRA, can have about 100+ personnel. If we take an average personnel of 20 personnel/brgy., at 42,000 brgys. nationwide, that's 840,000 people.
Municipal, city and provincial governments will have an army of their own employees, whether permanent or casual/contractual. My estimate is that there could be at least 1.2 million personnel in LGUs aside from barangay. The Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) also boasts of 1.7 million membership nationwide. This alone is much higher than the 400,000 LGU personnel listed in the CSC. So I guess it is safe to put the number of LGU personnel at 2 million.
For NGAs, there should be more than 1 million personnel if casuals, contractuals, consultants, and "draftees" are included. It is common practice that some known athletes who receive salaries and allowances from the Phil. Sports Commission (PSC), are also "draftees" in the AFP (Army, Air Force, or Navy) and draw another set of salaries. This is being done by the AFP to prop up its image, where the AFP is mentioned when those athletes win the big cycling races, boxing, other sports where there are no strong sponsorship by private commercial teams. But it also reflects that the AFP and other agencies that practice this have bloated budget because they have allowances for personnel who are actually non-soldiers.
Government enterprises would also have more than 100,000 personnel. Those GOCCs and GFIs have their own subsidiaries; and sometimes, those subsidiaries also create their own subsidiaries, that even the DOF and COA cannot monitor them; they only surface when the accummulated losses of the mother GOCC or GFI becomes very big that they run for bail-out (ie, new subsidies) and there are investigations and strict accounting procedures undertaken.
But my estimate is that there could be3.5 million government personnel. How come?
LGUs alone, there are around 42,000 in the country. A barangay (brgy.) would have a minimum of 14 personnel: brgy. captain + 7 brgy. councillors + brgy. secretary + brgy. treasurer + head of Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) + head of brgy security + brgy. nutritionist + brgy. health officer. Some barangays that can mobilize other revenues aside from what they get from the national government, the IRA, can have about 100+ personnel. If we take an average personnel of 20 personnel/brgy., at 42,000 brgys. nationwide, that's 840,000 people.
Municipal, city and provincial governments will have an army of their own employees, whether permanent or casual/contractual. My estimate is that there could be at least 1.2 million personnel in LGUs aside from barangay. The Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) also boasts of 1.7 million membership nationwide. This alone is much higher than the 400,000 LGU personnel listed in the CSC. So I guess it is safe to put the number of LGU personnel at 2 million.
For NGAs, there should be more than 1 million personnel if casuals, contractuals, consultants, and "draftees" are included. It is common practice that some known athletes who receive salaries and allowances from the Phil. Sports Commission (PSC), are also "draftees" in the AFP (Army, Air Force, or Navy) and draw another set of salaries. This is being done by the AFP to prop up its image, where the AFP is mentioned when those athletes win the big cycling races, boxing, other sports where there are no strong sponsorship by private commercial teams. But it also reflects that the AFP and other agencies that practice this have bloated budget because they have allowances for personnel who are actually non-soldiers.
Government enterprises would also have more than 100,000 personnel. Those GOCCs and GFIs have their own subsidiaries; and sometimes, those subsidiaries also create their own subsidiaries, that even the DOF and COA cannot monitor them; they only surface when the accummulated losses of the mother GOCC or GFI becomes very big that they run for bail-out (ie, new subsidies) and there are investigations and strict accounting procedures undertaken.
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