Consum has announced today that it is increasing the salary of its entire workforce by 3.6%. The measure, approved by the Cooperative “to improve the purchasing power of the workforce”, will begin to be applied from the payroll for the month of February and affects 100% of the workers, more than 21,200 people.
The increase represents an investment of more than 20 million euros and represents a minimum increase per working member of 626.36 gross euros per year. This salary increase is in addition to the “historic” increase, according to the company, of 9% approved last year for all workers, the highest salary improvement in the last 15 years.
The working members are owners of the Cooperative, so they are involved in the management and share the benefits. Therefore, in addition to the salary, they receive annually the cooperative return that corresponds to the results, in addition to the interest for their mandatory contributions to the social capital. In 2023, 61.1 million euros were distributed, of which 34.1 million correspond to the distribution of cooperative results among working partners and 27 million to objective bonuses.
Consum estimates the number of jobs generated in the last year at more than 1,900, 10% more than the previous year, reaching a workforce of more than 21,200 people. In the last 10 years the Cooperative has doubled its workforce, creating nearly 10,000 “stable and quality” jobs in the autonomous communities in which it is present.
Of the total workforce, 72% are women (15,300) while 28% are men, around 5,800. By community, the workforce is distributed in: the Valencian Community with 63.7% of the workforce, 13,500 people; Catalonia with about 21% of the total workers, more than 4,300 jobs; the Region of Murcia with 1,600 people hired, which represents 7.9%, Castilla-La Mancha with 3.9% of total employment, and 800 contracts, and Andalusia, with nearly 4% of the total workforce and more than 800 hired people.