INDEX POINT INCREASE 2022. The government has promised to raise the index point used to calculate the gross salary of civil servants.
[Mis à jour le 22 juin 2022 à 08h12] This is one of the first major arbitrations of Emmanuel Macron’s second five-year term, the increase in the index point for civil servants, used to calculate their gross salary. This index point will be revalued, but at what level? The fight is likely to rage between Together! and the Nupes in particular, since the recomposition of the National Assembly. When the President of the Republic has not announced a potential increase, Jean-Luc Mélenchon offers him a 10% increase and the tenure of 800,000 public service contracts. Cost of the operation: 12 billion euros. A general revaluation would already cost the State 2 billion euros. So, what will Emmanuel Macron’s decision be?
No thaw in the civil servants’ index point has taken place since February 2017. In 2016, two meager increases of 0.6% each were made. The civil service unions are demanding an increase ranging from 3% for the CFDT to 20% for the CFTC. The majority should proceed to alliances in the coming days to try to pass its texts, potentially with Les Républicains even if such a coalition already divides on the right. The increase in the index point for civil servants comes at a time when the civil service is in a delicate situation. The lack of candidates for the last teacher competition attesting to the lack of attractiveness of this sector and this very specific 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.