The state public sector staff will receive in February the 0.5% extra salary increase approved this week in the Council of Ministers. The increase is due to the growth of the economy and implies that in 2023 the salary improvement will be 3.5%: 2.5% fixed, 0.5% due to inflation and another 0.5% due to the GDP.
This Thursday, the Treasury published a resolution in the Official State Gazette (BOE) in which it dictates the appropriate instructions to execute the increase, which will have retroactive effect from January of last year, affecting all public employees, some 3 million workers. of different administrations that will have to enable this increase. The decision will mean an aggregate increase of 818 million euros.
The 0.5% increase will be calculated on the salaries in force as of December 31, 2022, will take effect from January 1, 2023 and will be paid in the payroll for the month of February 2024, unless all the amounts are not available. necessary formal elements or cannot be carried out for technical reasons, in which case it will be paid in the first payroll in which it is possible.
The arrears for the months from January to December 2023, corresponding to the 0.5% increase, will be paid in the same terms, that is, in the February payroll or in the first time possible.
The approval comes after the advance of GDP for 2023 was known last Tuesday, which was 2.5%. With the approval of the last increase planned for 2023 and the one planned for this year, “in these three years, from 2022, we will have produced an increase of 9.5%,” highlighted this week the first vice president of the Government and Minister of Finance , María Jesús Montero, after approval by the Council of Ministers.
"The economy is doing well and, therefore, we support the salaries of our public employees in this economic situation," added the head of the portfolio. For 2024, a salary increase of 2% fixed and an extra 0.5% linked to inflation is contemplated.
