President Sánchez gets 90,000 euros and vice presidents 84,600, while the Royal House keeps its allocation of 8.4 million
The prime minister, vice presidents and ministers will see their salaries rise by 4% next year, double what they did this year. According to the project of the General State Budget (PGE), Pedro Sánchez will increase his salary to 90,010 euros per year, which amounts to about 7,500 euros per month. Vice Presidents Nadia Calviño, Yolanda Díaz and Teresa Ribera will receive 84,600 euros (about 7,000 euros gross per month); and the rest of the ministers, 79,415 euros per year, so 6,617 euros gross per month.
This increase is higher than the expected 2.5% for civil servants and deputies – to which an extra point must be added depending on how the year ends in terms of GDP and inflation. It will be the second consecutive salary increase for the government as it was increased by 2% in 2022, the same as the increase agreed with civil servants. Last year, in the midst of the crisis caused by the pandemic, they decided to freeze the salary, just like the rest of the MPs.
As a general rule, all senior state officials will increase their salaries by 4% next year. One of those with the highest allocation, the President of the Constitutional Court, Pedro González Trevijano, will go from 160,728 euros to 167,169 euros per year in 2023. The salary of the president of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary is going up in the same proportion (CGPJ), Carlos Lesmes: 151,186 euros of the slightly more than 145,000 euros he came in this year. Likewise, each of the 20 members of the CGPJ (a body in question due to the political difficulties in renewing its members) will receive a total of 130,390 euros in 2023, also 4% more than what they entered for their work this year .
The positions that also have salaries above the Prime Minister and whose salary has also been increased by 4% for 2023 are the President of the Economic and Social Council (CES), Antón Costas, and the President of the Council of State, Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega. The first will charge EUR 98,741 per year next year, while the second will enter EUR 90,393 in 2023.
The allocation to the Royal House remains frozen this year for the third consecutive year. In the 2023 Budgets, that will remain 8.43 million euros. There will be no variations in what the Crown receives from the public accounts, as happened in 2022 and 2021, compared to the slight increase it experienced in 2017 and 2018. In 2019 and 2020, when the 2018 accounts were extended, it was departure intended for the Royal House.
To this amount should be added other items that are divided into other expenditures carried out by different ministries in support of the activity of the Royal House. For example, the ministry of the presidency has set aside a game worth 7.7 million for 2023, half a million more than this year.
According to data from the Royal Household, the salary of King Felipe VI is 258,927 euros per year, while that of Queen Letizia is 142,402 euros. Queen Emeritus Sofia receives from her side 116,525 euros per year. Since March 2020, Don Felipe has decided to revoke the assignment of King Emeritus Juan Carlos I.
Source: La Verdad
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