Subida salarial del 5% para los funcionarios: pendiente de las elecciones

The Spanish government is in talks with representative unions of public employees to consider approving a 5% salary increase before the general elections on November 29th. In the early part of the year, the government should approve an additional 0.5% increase for 2026 due to inflation and the annual raise of 4.5%. If confirmed, the government will raise the minimum interprofessional salary for nearly 2.5 million workers before the general elections and revalue pensions for 9.5 million beneficiaries before the end of the year.

Additionally, they are exploring the possibility of approving the salary increase for officials and other public employees, a group of 3.5 million workers from the central administration, autonomous communities, and municipalities. After the Minister of the State Function, Óscar López, collected complaints from public employees' unions, assuring that he will do everything possible to advance the agreed salary increase by the end of November 2025, almost a year later.

CSIF, the main union in the group, confirms to EXPANSIÓN that they will try to expedite the two increases on the agreed route, with effects at the beginning of 2027. One would be the additional 0.5% to the 1.5% increase of 2026, which should be approved in the first three months of 2026 with retroactive effects as long as the average inflation of this year exceeds that 1.5% revaluation.

Taking into account that the pressure of prices is increasing and that main analysis institutes project that the average inflation for the whole year will be between 3.6% and 3.7%, the payout will be secured. However, the main concern to secure the officials is the projected increase for 2027: a 4.5%. Practically half of the total revaluation for the triennium 2026-2028, the 11% (counting with the 2% pending in 2028).

This increase, in turn, would ensure that the collective maintains its purchasing power after the price surge this year. According to sources consulted by EXPANSIÓN, there is no room for negotiation on the agreed salary route with the unions, which was signed by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. While the unions acknowledge the need to accelerate the work to consolidate the revaluations, historically, the salary increase for officials has been included in the State General Budgets.

Anomalous, the current government has detached the revaluations applied to the accounts since they have been extended since 2023. This means that whichever government takes office after November 29th or the new one from the polls should approve the increase outside of the budget if it is to take effect in 2027. The union CSIF has demanded that the government approve the 4.5% salary increase for 2027 by decree in the Permanent Deputation, before the general elections on November 29th, along with the additional 0.5% increase of 2026 fixed in the Framework Agreement signed at the end of 2025.

This demand, shared by CCOO, includes updating the residence benefits, equalizing salaries between administrations, strengthening public services, and recovering the salary structure prior to the cuts since 2010. The combined expenditure for the public coffers would amount to 10,000 million euros.