Poorest counties have most civil servants
The most civil servants in local administration work in
Bucharest (60,900) and the counties of Iasi (27,100), Prahova
(23,500), Timis (23,000), and Bacau (22,100), where there are three
civil workers per 100 inhabitants. However, if considered against
the number of inhabitants in every county, the most civil workers
are to be found in some of the poorest counties in Romania, such as
Vaslui, Salaj, Valcea, and Covasna, where GDP per capita is a lot
lower than the country average, with four civil workers per hundred
inhabitants.
The savings made by the state by laying off half of office
employees could amount to almost three billion euros per year. The
number of civil servants has risen four times over the last 20
years, but this has not meant higher efficiency. The cost cuts
achieved by reducing the "bureaucratic apparatus" could keep the
state from cutting salaries and numbers of productive staff -
doctors and teachers.