“…Ecuador's average government wage as a share of monthly GDP per capita is 1.8, versus an average of 2.0 across Latin America and the Caribbean. 64 The information shown in this section was taken from the work of Gasparini, et al (2015), in which wages refer only to salary without any additional compensation. 65 The relationship between the average government wage and GDP per capita measures the condition of government employees in relation to living standards (IMF, 2010).…”