The president’s government (PT) will soon send a bill to Congress to adjust the salaries of public servants in federal commissioned positions. The percentage requested has not yet been defined, but it could reach 30% with an estimated impact of R$10 billion per year.
The request comes amid efforts by the Ministries of Finance and Planning to cut spending and comply with the rules of the fiscal framework. The sending of the proposal, still under preparation, was investigated by the Poder360 and confirmed to People’s Gazette this Thursday (7) by the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (MGI).
The department, however, did not answer how much the adjustment will be or when the proposal should be sent, it only exemplified the salary gap for some of the positions that will be covered by the proposal. The report also contacted the Civil House and is awaiting a response.
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According to the investigation, the bill on the readjustment of civil servants will bring together all the agreements signed between the categories and the government throughout this administration, which the ministry claims have become outdated in recent years – a situation since the last year of the government (PT ). The adjustments must be granted in two installments, in 2025 and 2026.
“In recent years, remuneration for commissioned positions and functions, which have as counterpart the responsibility for managing the country’s main public policies, providing direct advice to State ministers and commanding regulatory agencies, among others, has accumulated a significant gap both in in relation to the private sector, as in relation to typical careers in the State”, explained the MGI to the report.
According to the ministry, there are around 94 thousand commissioned positions or functions. Of these, 94.07% are occupied by permanent employees, who receive 60% of the value of the position in commission. “By not keeping up with inflation, the lack of correction of remunerations worsened a situation that already existed in 2015”, pointed out the ministry.
Although it has not confirmed what the values requested from Congress will be, the MGI gave an example to the report of positions that have values that are out of date by up to 72.35%:
- CCE-18 category: position of a special nature, the current remuneration is R$18,800. “This value is lower than the entry salary for several typical State careers (R$ 20,924.80 or R$ 22,921.71, are examples)”, says the MGI. A adds that, due to the delay, the remuneration of the executive secretary (who replaces the Minister of State in his absence) is equivalent to 42.92% of the remuneration of the Minister of State.
- CCE-15 category: previously called DAS-5, corresponding to the position of Director. The MGI states that two adjustments have been granted since 2015: one in 2019 and another in 2023, totaling 32.17% in the period, “less than half of the accumulated inflation, which was 72.35% (calculated by the IPCA of Jan/2015 to Sep/2024)”. “In this position, the remuneration amount went from R$ 11,235.00 (January 2015) to R$ 13,623.39 (January 2019) and R$ 14,849.5, after the 2023 adjustment”, said the ministry.
The difficulty of moving forward in negotiations has led several categories of civil servants to go on strikes, strikes and mobilizations since last year, such as teachers and technical-administrative employees of the federal education network; professionals from Ibama and ICMBio; technicians and analysts from the National Treasury, the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), professionals from the Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) and the Central Bank, among others.
The MGI states that it commissioned a study from a private company to compare direct remuneration and benefits between public and private functions, and found that, in relation to commission positions, functions and bonuses, the gap reached 50% since 2015 for a position director (CCE-15).
For commissioned positions in the Federal Executive for positions up to CCE-FCE 13, the remuneration is only slightly lower in relation to the private sector, but without mentioning how much this difference is.
