INDEX POINT INCREASE 2022. The unfreezing of the index point for civil servants should be announced by Stanislas Guérini as of tomorrow, Tuesday June 28.
[Mis à jour le 27 juin 2022 à 08h02] The thaw of the index point for civil servants (used to calculate their gross salary) should be announced tomorrow, Tuesday June 28, 2022, by the Minister of Transformation and the Public Service Stanislas Guérini during a salary conference. Indeed, the civil service index point will be revalued in the process to take account of inflation (5.2% in May over one year). An increase which should be between 1% and 4%. As a reminder, a general increase of 1% would cost the State 2 billion euros per year. The index point for civil servants had been frozen since February 2017 and two consecutive increases of 0.6% each in 2016. What will be the exact content of the revaluation? Will all officials be affected? All the details should therefore be given by the government tomorrow.
The different unions of civil servants have been demanding quite different increases in the index point for several months. The CFDT wanted a 3% increase when the CDTC demanded a more aggressive revaluation of 20%. Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the Nudes and former leader BIA offered him a 10% raise. This thaw of the public service index point comes in a deleterious context. Indeed, the lack of candidates for the last teacher competition has highlighted the cruel lack of attractiveness of the profession. The level of remuneration is particularly pointed out, not enough incentive to recruit young teachers and attract again.
The amount of the civil service index point has been completely frozen since 2017. Indeed, for more than 5 years, no general increase in the remuneration of public officials has taken place. Only a few categorical increases have been implemented by Emmanuel Macron since his election as President of the Republic in 2017. For the time being, the value of this index point is €4.68. In other words, an annual treatment value of €5,623.23.
The unfreezing of the index point, which serves as the basis for the calculation of public officials, will be part of the purchasing power bill, as announced by the Minister of Transformation and the Civil Service, Stanislas Guerini on June 6 last at the microphone of France Info. As since its introduction, the index point must take inflation into account to allow the salaries of civil servants to follow the evolution of the rise in consumer prices (5.2% inflation in May 2022 on a year). Problem, this clue point was frozen between 2010 and 2017. A thaw took place under François Hollande, the index point then increased by 0.6% on July 1, 2016 and 0.6% again on February 1, 2017. Since then, there has been no change in the index point.
On the side of the unions of civil servants, the increase claimed is of the order of 10%, in particular on the side of the CGT. On the one hand, to compensate for the harmful effects of inflation, but also to compensate for the losses of civil servants linked to the freezing of the point in 2010. As for the increase in pensions, indexation to inflation with retroactive effect January 1 is required. The increase which should take place on July 1, 2022 is not yet known.
The value of the index point amounts to €4.68602 since February 1, 2017 for an annual salary value of €5,623.23. Note that this figure has been rising steadily since March 1, 1995.
The thaw of the index point seems essential for a profession that is suffering from its reputation, and which is unable to recruit enough. In addition, some public officials have not benefited from the categorical measures taken by Emmanuel Macron. The Head of State preferring more general revaluation measures, before changing his mind recently on this famous index point.