The government indicated on Thursday that the lowest salaries in the public service would be increased by 1.8% on January 1, 2023, an increase identical to that of the minimum wage recently announced for private sector employees.

Meeting Thursday morning, "the Council of Ministers adopted a draft decree which, from January 1, 2023, brings the minimum salary in the public service to 1,712.06 euros gross monthly", details the Ministry of the Public Service in a statement.


The decree raising the minimum salary in the #publicfunction has been published in the #JORF.


As of January 1, 2023, the minimum salary is increased to €1,712.06 gross monthly (corresponding to the increased index 353).

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More than 400,000 agents concerned

The measure “will concern nearly 409,000 public officials employed by the State, local authorities and public hospital establishments”, it is specified.

This increase was decided in response to the increase in the minimum wage in the private sector, announced in mid-December.

The minimum wage will thus increase by 24 euros to reach 1,353 euros net on 1 January 2023 (i.e. 1,709 euros gross).

In the civil service, the increase announced Thursday is the fourth increase in the lowest wages in 15 months, while inflation has returned in recent months to levels not seen since the 1980s (+ 6.2% over one year in November according to INSEE).

The 5.7 million public officials also benefited from a general increase of 3.5% in their salary on July 1, 2022.

A revision of salary scales requested by the unions

Several unions consider these successive revaluations insufficient in the face of inflation.

At this stage, the ministry is ruling out a new general measure to increase salaries but plans to launch discussions in early 2023 around career paths and the remuneration of civil servants.

“No more index lower than the minimum wage, that's good.

But that does not make us forget the essential work on the (salary) grids, nor the demand for general measures, ”commented the CFDT Public functions on Twitter.



"Between 2002 and 2022, the remuneration of public officials clearly did not follow inflation", which poses "a problem of attractiveness" in the public sector, regrets for its part Sens du Service public, a think tank composed senior officials, on LinkedIn.

The minimum wage is subject to a mechanical increase each year on January 1, which takes into account the rise in prices.

It can also be revalued during the year as soon as inflation exceeds 2%, but no automatic mechanism of this type exists for public officials.

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