The average salary of civil servants rises above 3,100 euros gross per month with the increases planned until 2024
Before the end of the year, the more than three million civil servants will receive an average benefit of more than 500 euros that they had not counted on. This is due to the fact that the government has agreed to update the 2% salary increase it had approved for this year in light of escalating inflation, which is at 9% according to the latest data for September. . To compensate them a bit for the loss of purchasing power they are experiencing, the Treasury Department has agreed to retroactively approve an additional 1.5% increase from January 1, which it has promised them at the end of the year. 2022, as union sources have explained to this paper.
This is quite unusual as it is not common that once a salary increase for this group is included in the General Budgets, this increase is reviewed and increased, at least in recent years. So far this has only happened to retirees, who before the 2012 reform were compensated with a ‘paguilla’ for the deviation in prices (in case these grew more than their revaluation).
The average salary of a civil servant is 2,884 euros (in 12 payments), according to the INE with the latest available data for 2020 from the Active Population Survey (EPA). This means that civil servants have an annual salary of more than 34,600 euros gross per year, which is 2.5 times more than the minimum interprofessional salary, which is 14,000 euros, and even predictably they will exceed 3,100 euros per month in 2024.
Despite this new revaluation, public sector workers will again lose purchasing power for the second year in a row, nothing more and nothing less than about 5 percentage points in 2022 (if inflation ended the year at 8.5%), which is on top of that almost 12 percentage points. points less purchasing power that has dragged on since 2010 as a result of the austerity measures approved by the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the freeze that took place in the years 2011 to 2015 as a result of the economic crisis in 2008.
Despite this significant deterioration in their purchasing power, the average pay of public sector workers has increased much more than that of the private sector since 2010, at 15.3% compared to 9.3%, and they have a salary much higher than that of the private sector. private sector. While government departments pay an average of €2,884 per month to their civil servants, companies pay €1,818 to their employees. In the private sector, it represents more than 1,000 euros per month less, a gap that has also widened in recent years to the maximum: it now stands at 37%.
The reasons for this important difference are based on the fact that, according to the INE itself, there is a higher proportion of civil servants with higher education, higher seniority and a lower proportion of part-time work. only one 21.2% of employees in the private sector earn more than 2,295 euros per month, this percentage rises to 63.7% in the administration.
And all indications are that this gap will only widen in the coming years with the raises that civil servants will receive until 2024. Although negotiations are still open, the government has proposed, in addition to a 1.5% compensation this year, to increase your salary by a fixed 2.5% in 2023, extendable to 3.5% with two variables: 0.5% linked to accumulated inflation in 2022 and 2023 above 6% in both years; and another half a percentage point if Spain grows above 5.9% in those two years. In addition, the Treasury offers a fixed revaluation of 2% in 2024, plus a variable of half a percentage point if the cumulative CPI for 2022, 2023 and 2024 is higher than 8%. If these economic conditions were met, the cumulative increase of the more than three million civil servants between 2022 and 2024 would be 9.5%. The deal could be concluded next Monday at the meeting they will hold.
With these new increases, the average pay of a civil servant will rise to above 3,100 euros in 2024. That means a major expense for the State, which has to allocate more than 5,000 million for the year-end bonus alone.
Source: La Verdad
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