Sánchez and his ministers apply a 4% salary increase

The coalition government has decided to apply the salary increase agreed with the Workers' Commissions and the UGT at the Function Table of the Civil Service unions, which represents an increase of 4% compared to what was included in the current Budgets.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
06 October 2022 Thursday 18:40
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Sánchez and his ministers apply a 4% salary increase

The coalition government has decided to apply the salary increase agreed with the Workers' Commissions and the UGT at the Function Table of the Civil Service unions, which represents an increase of 4% compared to what was included in the current Budgets. With this, the annual salary of President Pedro Sánchez will be 90,010.20 euros per year, which represents a monthly remuneration of 7,500 euros.

The Ministry of Finance has agreed with the Workers' Commissions and the UGT a salary increase for officials of 2.5% by 2023, which may reach 3.5% throughout the year if certain variables are met. But the agreement also includes applying this year a compensation clause in the form of a 1.5% increase.

The Executive has decided to apply the same percentages agreed for civil servants to the president and ministers. For this reason, the salaries that were contemplated in the 2022 Budgets are already going to rise by 1.5% and the 2.5% initially planned for 2023 is applied to that remuneration.

Formally, in the General State Budgets that the Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero, has just presented, the Government's salaries experience an increase of 4% compared to what was included in the project presented a year ago, but in practice it is done staggered.

The Congress and the Senate have also increased the salary of deputies and senators in the same proportion as that of officials, 1.5% over 2022 and 2.5% for 2023. Of course, there was no unanimity in the Congress Table , but PP and Vox voted against, and Ciudadanos also made public their opposition to applying the rise of officials to their lordships.

That of 2023 will be the second consecutive salary increase for the president, the vice presidents and the ministers (in 2022 it was 2%), but the previous year the PSOE and Podemos rectified in the process of amendments and in the end their salary was frozen in 2021, like parliamentarians.

Thus, and according to the project registered in the Chamber, the salary of the Prime Minister will go from 86,542.08 euros to 90,010.20 euros per year, which represents an increase of 3,468.12 euros more than this year. Since he is not entitled to extra payments, his monthly salary will amount to 7,500 euros.

Likewise, the annual salary of the three vice presidents of the Government (Nadia Calviño, Yolanda Díaz and Teresa Ribera) rises to 84,600.72 euros per year compared to the 81,341.16 euros that they have been receiving. It is a monthly salary of 7,050.06 euros gross, since they do not have payments either.

For their part, the ministers of the coalition government will see their annual salary increased to 79,415.16 euros gross, which means a monthly salary of 6,617.93 euros.

As for the Secretaries of State and Undersecretaries, who in 2021 got rid of the salary freeze, in next year's Budgets they will experience a new increase, of 4%.

Thus, the secretaries of State will receive 77,893.18 euros per year, the undersecretaries will be above 69,059 euros and the general directors and similar will receive 59,048 euros per year, adding the salary, the destination complement and the specific complement. Unlike the ministers, these high officials do also receive extraordinary payments in June and December, with which they can receive more than their superiors.

A salary increase of 4% is also contemplated for the president of the Council of State, María Teresa Fernández de la Vega, who in 2023 will receive 90,383.28 euros, and for the president of the Economic and Social Council (CES), Antón Costas, who will have an annual salary of 98,741.40 euros. Both also saw their salary frozen in 2021 with the last minute amendment of PSOE and Podemos.

Likewise, the president of the Constitutional Court, Pedro González Trevijano, and that of the Supreme Court and the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Carlos Lesmes, appear at the highest level of salaries that public officials will receive next year, with 167,169 euros and 151,186, respectively.

In the part of the project called 'Red Series', consulted by Europa Press, there are also the assignments of the members of the CGPJ -normally 20, but now made up of 18-, each of which will receive 130,390 euros, compared to the current 125,366 . For his part, the general secretary of the CGPJ will also charge more, specifically €127,384, compared to 122,476 this year.

In parallel, the new State Attorney General, Álvaro García Ortiz, will have an increase of five thousand euros, up to €132,235, when compared to what was budgeted in the last PGE for Dolores Delgado, her predecessor (€127,140).