Salaries in budgetary sectors to increase by 37.5 - 65%

Salaries in all budgetary sectors will be raised following the same pattern applied in the education field, following the teachers’ one-month strike, but necessary funds will be raised through personnel cut-downs, according to Government spokesperson Gabriela Vranceanu Firea. The Government on Thursday approved basic salary increases of min 37.5% and max 65% for every position, Firea said, adding that the Executive removed the multiplication factors and sector reference value and settled a bottom limit for each position. “The ordinance aims at urgently readjusting basic salaries in all budgetary sectors with those in the education field, so as to not to harm social interests of other personnel categories,” said Firea. Thus, in public administration, for an execution position, such as within a ministry, an employee with higher education will have a salary between 1.3 and 5.4m lei. Employees with average studies (referees, inspectors, accountants and debutants) will be granted between 968,000 and 4.8 million lei. In local public administration, the basic salary for employees with a higher education will vary between 1.6 and 3.4m lei, and for employees with average studies between 1.3 and 2.7m lei. According to Firea, salaries for employees in the public health system will vary according to the institution type (clinical or not) and to the training level. Thus, the basic salary for a primary physician will vary between 3 and 6.7m lei, for a specialist – between 2.6 and 5m lei, for a resident – between 2.2 and 3.3m lei, and for a medical assistant – between 1 and 3.4m lei. In scientific research, the basic minimum salary will amount to 1.5m lei, while the maximum salary may reach 6 million lei. According to Firea, the additional budgetary effort amounts to 1,150bn lei, which will be partially covered by cutting down the number of people paid from the budget.