Total employment grew by 5.2% year on year and 4% quarter on quarter in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to full-year employment data released by the Central Bank in April. This took total employment to 551,559, or 41.4% of the total population. Private-sector employment rose slightly faster than that in the public sector, taking private-sector employment to 92% of all employment, compared with just under 90% four years ago. Most of the new jobs went to non-Bahrain workers, as has been the case for some years. Just over 3,000 new jobs created in the past 12 months went to Bahrainis, whereas over 22,000 new jobs went to foreign workers. This is partly because of significant wage differentials between the two groups, at least where private-sector employment is concerned. Non-Bahrainis working in the private sector earned an average of BD205 (US$545) a month in the fourth quarter of 2010, little changed from the average of BD197 one year earlier. By contrast, Bahrainis working in the private sector earned an average wage that was more than twice as high, at BD595 a month, compared with BD577 one year earlier. The opposite is true in the public sector, where non-Bahrainis earn higher wages than Bahrainis. The statistics do not include any figures for employment in the army or Ministry of the Interior.