Congress plans to increase the salary of deputies by 2.5% this year, as contemplated in the institution’s Budget project that the Chamber Board plans to approve this Tuesday and to which Europa Press has had access. Specifically, the global budget includes a spending forecast of 114,815,460 euros, which represents 3.98% compared to the 2023 financial year, whose amount amounted to 110,421,300 euros.
The Congress and Senate approve their own accounts and then these are included in the General State Budget bill. In those that will be analyzed this Tuesday by the Lower House Table, an additional provision is contemplated to face a possible increase in the salaries of deputies of 2.5%. Usually the salary increase for members of the Chambers is adjusted to that provided for civil servants.
It is referred to as “eventual” because the increase in parliamentary remuneration will be adopted, where appropriate, in accordance with the provisions contemplated in the corresponding concepts of the PGE, which the Ministry of Finance is still designing and which the Government wants to send to Congress in the upcoming weeks.
With this 2.5% increase, the constitutional allowance that all deputies receive monthly would go from the current 3,142.14 euros to 3,220.69, that is, they will charge 78.55 euros more per month and a total of 45,089.66 euros per year, to which each person must add the compensation and supplements that correspond to them, and which will increase by the same amount.
The Congressional budget project for 2024 also includes an additional provision for salaries of temporary staff of 18.80% in order to face a possible increase in these salaries, also by 2.5%.
These forecasts also take into account the agreements of September 2023, by which the number of temporary personnel was increased.
In total, the chapter allocated to personnel expenses, which also includes parliamentary remuneration, amounts to 55,036,450 euros, 9.08% more than the 50,545,100 euros that were budgeted for 2023.
Furthermore, the budget project highlights a drop of 2.43% in the current expenditure chapter on goods and services, since the 45,418,000 in 2023 drops to 44,313,250 euros. This decrease is mainly due to the notable reduction in the subconcept of electric energy supply, which is estimated at 33.83% less.
This Tuesday, a joint meeting of the Boards of both chambers will also take place in which the Budget of the Cortes Generales, the Ombudsman and the Central Electoral Board (JEC) will be analyzed.
