Mohamed AlgarjStarting from IOM's count of 867,055 migrants from 44 nationalities, the investigation models a possible annual migrant wage bill of USD 3.3 billion. The number should be presented as a scenario—not measured remittances—and stress-tested against employment rates, informal work, wage distributions, and domestic spending.
USD 3.3bn per year — the author's migrant-wage-bill estimate, not a measured flow
The analysis
Starting from IOM's count of 867,055 migrants from 44 nationalities, the investigation models a possible annual migrant wage bill of USD 3.3 billion. The number should be presented as a scenario—not measured remittances—and stress-tested against employment rates, informal work, wage distributions, and domestic spending.
What the public record establishes
The linked records provide the institutional and numerical frame for this investigation. They support a documented reading, but do not automatically prove every causal claim or allegation. Do not conflate the stock of migrants with the number employed or remitting money. Publish the complete formula, wage assumption, employment-rate assumption, exchange rate, and domestic-consumption share. Avoid language that stigmatizes migrants or implies illegality based solely on nationality or documentation status.
What remains unanswered
The public-interest test is what the responsible institutions publish next: the underlying decision, transaction-level data, implementation record and a response that can be checked against the evidence in this social-justice file.
Editorial method: This investigation rebuilds the original calculation from the linked public records, preserves the source period and transaction stage, and separates documented figures from estimates, interpretation and allegations.
Mohamed Algarj