Civil servants in the general, regional and local administrations will see an extra 0.5% increase in salaries, after greater-than-expected economic growth was revealed. In a race to avoid the loss of purchasing power and combat inflation, when and how much will your salary rise this year? What factors will define the increase?
The salary increase agreed between the Government and unions included a fixed increase of 2.5% for 2023, to which two additional increases of half a point each could be added. One is due to inflation, which was already paid in the October payrolls, with retroactive effects to January 1, 2023. The other, the current one, comes from the GDP growth above what was expected, which is consolidated and with effect from January 2023. In this way, the final increase remains at 3.5% for last year.
The increase in salaries must be approved in a future Council of Ministers and will be implemented in the following payrolls. UGT and CC.OO. They demand to incorporate it “immediately.”
The revaluation affects employees of the general, regional and local administrations. In total, there are an estimated 3.5 million beneficiaries.
The unions, in any case, denounce that workers have lost 5.8% of purchasing power between 2022 and 2023. “It is essential to launch the negotiation tables for a new salary agreement and salary equalization between Public Administrations “, the CSIF union stated in a message on X (Twitter). Since 2010, with the salary cut of President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a loss of purchasing power of 20% is estimated.
Public employees have started 2024 without a salary increase, so the agreements or measures would be retroactive to January 1.
According to current agreements, by 2024 officials will see their salaries increase by 2% from the start. Again, an additional 0.5% can be added for inflation, provided that the harmonized CPI from 2022 to 2024 exceeds the fixed increase accumulated in these same years.
From CC.OO. and UGT requests that the increase for 2024 be approved now, without waiting for the approval of the General State Budgets. The centers demand to incorporate “immediately” into the payrolls of civil servants both the 0.5% increase in the salaries of civil servants due to the 2.5% increase in GDP in 2023 and the corresponding 2% agreed for this year .
