Most administrations pay their employees in November payroll the back payments resulting from the additional 1.5% increase for this year
According to UGT estimates, most of the three million civil servants have already received an additional payment of between €231 and €651 with the November payroll to offset the impact of inflation. This extra is the result of the additional 1.5% increase agreed between the government and the trade unions, on top of the 2% increase approved for this year. In total, the salary of civil servants has increased by 3.5% this year.
The General State Administration, the vast majority of the Autonomous Communities and the local government have decided to pay their employees the arrears corresponding to the months of January to October of this increase, which was retroactive, in the November payroll, while the rest of the organizations will do so in December, as the agreement included a commitment to pay it before the end of the year.
In addition, civil servants have seen their regular payroll increase in November as a result of this increase now in effect and being consolidated for the future.
Despite this new revaluation, public sector workers will again lose purchasing power for the second consecutive year, more than three percentage points in 2022 (inflation for November is 6.8%), on top of the nearly 12 points less purchasing power they have been carrying since 2010, due to the cuts approved by the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the freeze they had in the years 2011 to 2015 due to the economic crisis of 2008.
Officials get a new 2.5% increase in January, a figure that could rise by up to one point under the agreement signed in October, depending on clauses related to the CPI and nominal GDP
Specifically, staff will receive 0.5% more if the sum of the Harmonized CPI for 2022 and the Harmonized CPI ahead for September 2023 exceeds 6%. The other variable, also 0.5%, is applied if nominal GDP is equal to or greater than the estimate in the macroeconomic table accompanying the General Government Budget 2023.
In addition, they have a fixed revaluation of 2% in 2024, plus a variable of half a percentage point if the cumulative CPI for 2022, 2023 and 2024 exceeds 8%. If these economic conditions were met, the cumulative increase that the more than three million civil servants would have between 2022 and 2024 would be 9.5%.
Source: La Verdad
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