BarcelonaThe Ministry of Public Service and the unions UGT and CSIF – CCOO is pending validation with its internal bodies – have closed this Wednesday night a multi-year agreement to raise the salaries of more than three million civil servants by 11% in the period from 2025 to 2028. This increase will be distributed in a 2.5% increase for this year; of 1.5% for 2026, with an additional variable of 0.5% linked to the evolution of the CPI; of 4.5% for 2027, and 2% for 2028, according to union sources.
This year’s increase in the salaries of employees of the different administrations, of 2.5%, would be paid in December with retroactive effects from January 1. For 2026, what has been agreed is a fixed salary increase of 1.5%, and another half point would be added if inflation at the end of the year equals or exceeds the fixed increase of 1.5%. If so, this additional 0.5% would be paid in the first quarter of 2027 with retroactive effects. All other years will only have a fixed part. Although for the entire period from 2025 to 2028 the agreed increase is 11%, the unions estimate that the cumulative salary increase that public employees will experience in these four years will be close to 11.5%, due to the drag effect of consolidating the increases in the salary tables each year.
The agreement also incorporates several improvements in the working conditions of civil servants, such as the elimination of the replacement rate, the streamlining of selective processes and the strengthening of public service templates, among others. This pact between the ministry and the unions was reached after a new meeting, the second this week, by the Secretary of State for Public Service, Consuelo Sánchez Naranjo, with the representatives of CCOO, UGT and CSIF.
Recover purchasing power
“It’s a great agreement, in which not only public workers win, but the quality of public services and the public in general”, said the general secretary of UGT Serveis Públics, Isabel Araque, at the end of the meeting. He also emphasized that this pact involves the recovery of 2.9% of the purchasing power that had been lost by the group of civil servants. “We must congratulate ourselves. This agreement gives certainty and confidence, not only to public workers, but also to administrations,” he added.
From CSIF, they have defended that the salary agreement reached is “the best possible in the current political circumstances” and means an end to the salary freeze suffered by civil servants this year. “CSIF subscribes to this agreement as a matter of responsibility and commitment to public employees. We have achieved the best possible agreement taking into account the difficulties that the country is going through, the political instability, the budget blockade and the economic limitations of the European Union and NATO for defense spending”, points out the union chaired by Miguel Borra.
The parties have agreed to set up a monitoring committee to ensure compliance with the agreed measures within a maximum period of fifteen days from the signing of the agreement. In this way, CSIF has emphasized that the agreement “is not a blank check” and that it will ensure its compliance “within the deadline and in the appropriate manner”, reserving “all the measures to ensure its effective execution”.
