In two doses it will be ‘implicit’ almost a 13th salary to civil servants in 2026.
OR first dose The “13th salary” will be indirectly paid by reducing taxes on civil servants’ earnings from January 1, 2026, according to the announcements made by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis from the TIF step on September 6, 2026.
As revealed in a recent television interview, Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance Thanos Petralias, the budgetary costs for the indirect increase in the net salaries of civil servants from the reduction of tax rates will amount to € 400 million. This corresponds to an average of 50 euros to each civil servant each month.
The indirect increase will be greater for civil servants with children (400,000 out of 700,000).
OR second installment The State will be paid on April 1, 2026, from that date the equal (compared to the minimum wage in the private sector) will be paid to all civil servants.
The cost of this increase (along with other targeted additional interventions, for example, to uniforms, etc.) will amount to EUR 600 million or 70 euros gross on all wages in the State every month.
According to Mr Petralias, the total budgetary budget, which will be given to civil servants (by reducing taxes from January 1, 2026 and through the increase in the minimum wage from April 1, 2026) amounts to 1 billion euros. It is noted that the budgetary cost of the 13th salary to the State is € 1.3 billion.
Consequently, through the package of indirect and immediate increases in the State, the monthly remuneration of its employees will be adjusted by almost one more, “13th salary” on a yearly basis. Only instead of receiving the 13th salary of e.g. At the end of the year (Christmas), they will receive it through their monthly payroll clearances.
The average increase in gross earnings of civil servants on an annual basis will be close to 1,400 euros or around 100 euros per month.