Salary increase of 18.9% for the president of the Junta de Andalucía, Juanma Moreno, and 15% for another 269 senior officials. This was approved today in the last Governing Council of the year, a meeting in which it was established that the head of San Telmo will now earn 87,333 euros per year, so that his salary can be equated to the rest of the presidents of autonomous communities.
This increase has been justified by the spokesperson for the Andalusian Government, Ramón Fernández Pacheco, who has argued that Moreno Bonilla was the “penultimate” on the list of presidents in terms of salary and that, despite this increase, “he will continue to earn a 5% less than, for example, some spokespersons whose parliamentary group has five members” in Parliament. “Everyone will understand it as reasonable that the leader of the “Andalusian” Executive is close to what those responsible for the opposition earn,” he commented.
The salary increase, which in addition to benefiting the president of the Board, will increase the payroll of another 269 senior officials (directors, deputy directors and territorial delegates), will mean a cost of “around 2.5 million euros, which represents a 0.005 percent of the total budget of the Andalusian Government”, as explained by Fernández-Pacheco, who has defended that “the salaries paid to the management positions” of the Andalusian administration “until now are very low” in relation to and only “to what is paid in private companies, but to what is paid, for example, in the municipal world”, in councils or “the main town councils of provincial capitals” or of municipalities with “large populations”, as has been abundant.
In this regard, he stressed that “throughout this year and a half” of the legislature “we have seen on many occasions how general directors or general secretaries of the ministries have gone to the municipal world, especially as a result of the elections, because they have better working conditions”, and “if we want to have the best” in the administration, “at least” it must be “in the environment of what the rest of the public administrations pay”, and hence the agreed salary increase , which, in the case of the president of the Board, will go from the 73,458 euros initially planned for 2024 to 87,333 euros.
The draft Budget Law of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia for the year 2024, which was approved last week by the Plenary Session of Parliament with the absolute majority of the PP-A, set the annual salary of directors and similar members at 66,858.96 euros per year, and in 62,740.44 euros for deputy councilors and similar.
For directors and similar members, the Budget Law project contemplated extraordinary payments of 1,838.29 euros in the months of June and December, which would be 2,080 euros for deputy directors and similar members.
Similarly, the remuneration of the heads of the General Directorates and similar and of the Territorial Delegations, Provincial Delegations and similar were set in the Budget for 2024, respectively, at 14,733.36 and 14,948.16 euros, to which there were to add destination complements and specific complements, in addition to extraordinary payments in June and December
Moreno, also president of the PP-A, is “the deputy who earns the least in the Parliament of Andalusia” despite being “the deputy who has the most responsibility,” said the Executive spokesperson, since he has expressed that the regional president only He surpassed that of Cantabria, Miguel Ángel Revilla, and was equal with that of Asturias, Adrián Borbón despite the fact that Andalusia is the community with the largest population in the country, the one with the largest budget and the third economy in Spain, he stressed.
Very far from the top positions in this ranking of the best-paid presidents, Moreno is now leaving the bottom of the table to disperse among the average leaders, a list headed by the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès (annual salary of 136,177 ,5 euros); of the Basque Country, the Lehendakari Iñigo Urkullu (106,778 euros per year) and the presidency of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso (103,090 euros per year).
In the case of the central Government, the new Executive has not yet released its Budget project for next year, so Pedro Sánchez’s annual salary will for the moment be 90,010.20 euros per year, which represents a remuneration monthly of 7,500 euros.
