What Is Known About the 0.5% Salary Increase in Civil Servants: It Will Be Retroactive

The reward will be a one-time payment.

Three million public employees are awaiting an extra increase due to inflation of 2024, which CSIF stands at 1.2 billion euros withheld from public administration workers

The average CPI data of 2024 closed the year with 2.8%, which meant a wage increase for three million public employees who, however, are still waiting to collect the last part of this increase. Specifically, 0.5% of the 9.8% total that was agreed for the period 2022-2024. "The government has always complied and has paid religiously and will also do so with 0.5%," the minister explained earlier this month. But, although the amount is modest - the…

Public employees have been waiting for months for a promised salary increase, approved and not yet paid. Now, the Minister of Public Service, Oscar López, confirmed during the Second Federal Congress of UGT Public Services (SP) that the 0.5% increase pending for 2024 will be paid “in short” and that it will have retroactive effects since January 1st of this year. The pending increase is part of the Framework Agreement 2022-2024, signed with the …

The raise that civil servants and retirees will receive in July is determined by the 6-month inflation between January and July. The Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) announced the first 4-month data for this period. Accordingly; monthly inflation, which was 5.03 percent in January, 2.27 percent in February, and 2.46 percent in March, was 3 percent in April, in line with expectations. Thus, the cumulative inflation for the first 4 months was …

The government is committed to raising the wages of local government employees and is gradually improving the level of income, the Ministry of Public Administration and Regional Development (KTM) announced.