The State of Israeli Workers Ido Lan and Yoni Ben-Bassat Translation: Adi Marcus September 2023 Key Findings: 1. As of 2021, Israeli public sector wages are the lowest amongst studied countries, compared to local private sector wages. 2. This has not always been the case. A continuous erosion of the public sector pay has been taking place in the last three decades – during these years the public-private wage gap increased by about 30 percentage points. 3. Erosion of public se