Measures to increase the salaries of 5.7 million public officials were announced on Monday June 12 by the Minister of Transformation and the Civil Service Stanislas Guerini. They will reach 3.5 billion euros in the second half of 2023, and around 6 billion in 2024. But the amounts announced remain below those hoped for by the unions. Here they are in detail.
General increase
As in 2022, civil servants and contract workers in the public sector obtain a general increase on July 1. Their salary will be increased by 1.5% after a 3.5% increase last summer.
For each agent, the increase will be calculated on the basis of his salary excluding bonuses and allowances. According to the Ministry of the Public Service, an agent who previously received a little more than 1,700 euros gross per month will earn an additional 26 euros with this 1.5% increase in the value of the index point, one of the two parameters which serves as the basis for calculating salaries in the public service.
The CGT, the first public service union, denounces in a press release a largely insufficient measure while inflation still reached 5.1% in May, according to INSEE.
Adding Points
In addition to the revaluation of the index point, the government has decided to play on the other parameter which determines the remuneration: the number of index points held by each agent.
All civil servants and contractors will thus receive five additional points from 1 January 2024, i.e. around 25 euros more on their monthly payroll. In the shorter term, from July 1, certain agents of categories B and C, the least well paid in the public service, will receive up to nine additional index points.
According to the ministry, this additional measure concerns 384,000 agents in the State civil service (approximately 15% of the workforce), 803,000 in the territorial civil service (approximately 40%) and 255,000 in the hospital public service (approximately 20% ).
Prime
For the sake of “fairness” with employees in the private sector, the government announced on Monday the granting of a bonus of 300 to 800 euros gross “for the benefit of the agents most affected by inflation” (5.1% over a year in May according to INSEE).
It will be paid “before the end of 2023” to agents who receive less than 3,250 euros gross per month. But where its allocation will be by right for hospital and state officials, community agents will only benefit from it if their employer wishes, a point that the unions have not failed to denounce.
The ministry estimates that nearly half of the agents will receive the bonus in the state civil service, ie 1.2 million civil servants and contract workers. In the hospital sector, 70% of the workforce is concerned, which corresponds to more than 800,000 agents.
Public transport and mission expenses
The government has indicated that it will now bear 75% of the cost of agents’ subscription to public transport, compared to 50% so far.
He presents this measure, which will come into force “from September”, as a “response to the increase in the cost of subscriptions” such as the Navigo pass in the Paris region, which recently increased by almost nine euros per month. . Thus, a civil servant or a contract worker who works in Île-de-France will have to pay 19 euros less each month to finance his subscription to public transport.
Finally, for agents who make business trips, mission expenses will also be increased at the start of the school year. Hotel nights and meal allowance caps will be increased by at least 10% (the specific percentage increase will vary by territory).