Apart from health care, salaries will be increased at the same time in the rest of the public sector, but according to a different “formula”
It is now definite that about 2.1 million citizens in Serbia will have higher incomes from January. Increases for 1.7 million pensioners from the January pension can already be calculated in dinars, and the growth of salaries in the public sector, in percentage, was officially announced yesterday. Higher incomes should be expected by the oldest, but also about 400,000 employees in the public sector – medical workers, professors, soldiers, public administration…
All medical workers will first receive a one-time aid of 80 euros by Friday, and then 120,000 employees in health care will receive a five percent salary increase from January 1 next year.
Salaries will be increased at the same time in the rest of the public sector, but according to a different “formula”. Namely, their January, February and March salaries will be increased by 3.5 percent. Then, from April 1, their salaries will grow by another 1.5 percent, so that their total increase will be five percent.
About 1.7 million pensioners should expect higher incomes in the new year, because the growth of pensions according to the Swiss formula has been announced for 2021, by 5.9 percent. After the increase, the average pension will be increased from the current 230 to 250 euros.
Last year, let us remind you, salaries in the public sector increased by an average of eight to 15 percent in November. Nurses and technicians received the highest growth then – 15 percent, while doctors in health care and employees in science and culture received an increase of 10 percent each.
Education employees, judges, prosecutors, employees in courts and prosecutor’s offices, as well as workers in social protection institutions and members of security services and forces received a nine percent increase. Employees in the state administration received an increase of eight percent.
Salaries for all health workers were increased by the state again in April this year, in the midst of the corona virus pandemic, by 10 percent.
Practically, from 2021, instead of 80 euros of pension, pensioners will receive about 5 euros more, while those with the highest incomes will have an increase of at least 50 euros.
Pensions will grow next year according to the agreed model – the Swiss formula, which implies adjusting the income of the oldest citizens with 50 percent inflation and 50 percent growth in average wages, and the Serbian government has announced a new model from 2022 that would enable even greater growth.
The goal is for the average pension to reach the level of 400 euros in 2025, Srbija Danas reports.
