Civil servants will see materialized on the November payroll an additional 1.5% pay rise agreed between the government, CCOO and UGT, with the corresponding increase paid from January to October as arrears.

In the area of ​​Autonomous Communities and Localities, payment must be made “by December 31, 2022 and in any case by March 31, 2023”, as established by the Royal Decree on Energy Efficiency, where the Government has included an increase in the wages of civil servants.

This Royal Decree, approved yesterday by the Council of Ministers, was published this Wednesday in the Official State Gazette (BOE) and establishes that, in exceptional cases, in 2022, the State may allow the Autonomous Communities to formalize new long-term debt operations or to allocate resources credited to additional financing mechanisms , the equivalent amount needed to raise the wages of public sector workers.

In the event that loan modifications consisting of supplementary loans or emergency loans are processed in 2022, Article 177.6 of the Local Treasury Regulation Consolidated Text may apply, which states that agreements by local entities that are subject to credit supplements in cases of public disaster or of a similar nature, which are of exceptional public interest, are subject to immediate execution.

As outlined in the Royal Decree on Energy Efficiency, which will generally take effect tomorrow, an emergency loan or credit surcharge approved to fund additional salary increases for civil servants can be included in the corresponding credits of the coming year’s spending budgets. therefore, payment must be made by March 31, 2023.

In exceptional cases, local entities that do not have sufficient resources to finance loan modifications may apply for a loan in the required amount from the Local Entity Finance Fund.

The amount of this loan cannot exceed 1.5% of the net liability recognized in chapter 1 of the 2021 liquidation budget expenditure statement. In these cases, local entities must make payment by March 31, 2023.

The terms of access to this funding, as well as the financial terms of this operation, will be approved by the government’s delegation commission on economic issues.

The 1.5% wage increase agreed between the government and the unions is on top of the 2% wage increase for civil servants effective January 1 this year and aims to ease the pockets of civil servants in the face of rising prices.

Anchoring the increase in 2022 means that it will apply to remuneration in effect at 31 December 2021 and will therefore be applied retroactively.

In total, by 2022, the wages of civil servants will increase by 3.5%.

The parties also agreed that in 2023 the state fee will increase by 2.5% and can be increased by up to one additional point depending on the variables associated with the CPI and nominal GDP.

In particular, civil servants will receive 0.5% more if the sum of the Harmonized CPI for 2022 and the forward Harmonized CPI for September 2023 exceeds 6%. Another variable, also 0.5%, will apply if nominal GDP equals or exceeds the estimate provided in the macroeconomic table attached to the 2023 PGE.

In 2024, the salaries of civil servants will increase by another 2% and another 0.5%, depending on the change in the agreed consumer price index.

The government clarifies that the revaluation could be 9.8% if the calculations are carried out in real terms. The reason is that the increase in salary for each year is consolidated, so the increase for each year is made on a salary increased compared to the previous year, the Ministry of Finance explains.

The increase in wages will affect 2,717,570 public administration employees, according to the Statistical Bulletin of Public Administration Personnel.