Senior officials are suspicious of the salary agreement and see the risk of losing purchasing power

The majority union among senior State officials, Fedeca, has been critical of the salary agreement recently signed by the Government, CSIF and UGT to increase the remuneration of public employees by 11.4% in the period 2025-2028. The president of the organization, Ana Ercoreca, has warned that The figures on the table may be “misleading” and there is a risk that officials will lose purchasing power again.as already happened with the previous agreement.

From Fedeca they consider that, In the best of cases, the agreed increase would allow 2% of purchasing power to be gained. On the contrary, they warn that if inflation forecasts fall short—something that has been the norm in recent years—the purchasing power of public salaries “will continue to erode.”

Specifically, they point out that if the Bank of Spain’s inflation forecasts are met (2.5% in 2025 and 1.7% in 2026), a good part of the agreed increases will be neutralized. Furthermore, they warn that conditioning a 0.5% increase in 2026 on inflation exceeding 1.5% that year does not offer guarantees.

Consequently, The main union of senior civil servants demands that salaries be “mandatory” linked to the real CPI with automatic review and compensation clauses if deviations occur. A mechanism similar to that enjoyed by pensioners from 2022, which guarantees revaluations according to the evolution of consumer prices. “If the increase does not take into account the real CPI, that increase will not be real, it will not be objective and it will mean a loss of purchasing power,” Ercoreca assessed.

Similarly, Fedeca has claimed that there are csalary supplements that take into account the price of housing and the place of destination, especially in large cities. A problem that “especially affects people who enter public administration for the first time,” said the president of Fedeca.

At the same time, they demand that the extra pay suppressed in 2010 due to the economic crisis be fully recovered, which has only been partially returned. “Since 1982, public employees have lost more than 44% of purchasing power and the cut in extra pay has meant a cumulative loss of more than 14,000 euros in certain bodies,” Ercoreca added.

In addition, senior officials maintain that signing an agreement until 2028 – when the legislature will conclude, at the latest, in 2027 – represents a “fraud of law.” “We do not know the panorama that will exist in our opinion [el acuerdo] It should also be protected by Congress,” said Ercoreca.