LIVE // Salary increases to be applied starting 1 January 2027

UPDATE // Starting January 1, we will implement the promised salary increases. Until then, we must partially correct this delay, and in October we will provide a one-time payment for all public sector employees who have a gross salary of less than 20,000 lei. Thus:

▪ Employees in education – management staff, teaching staff and auxiliary teaching staff – will receive 4,000 lei each.

▪ Public sector employees in the fields of social services, national defense and public order, health (budgetary institutions), culture, sports, justice and public administration will receive 3,000 lei each.

▪ Public sector employees in the technical sector will receive 2,000 lei each.

UPDATE // The Prime Minister emphasized that the salary increases will be applied starting January 1, 2027. At the same time, public sector employees will receive a one-time compensatory payment this year. For this payment, an amount of 560 million lei will be allocated from the state budget.

Vasile Tofan: The goal of the wage reform in the public sector is to solve a series of problems, allowing us to correct multiple inequities and to ensure a long-term increase in salaries. Not only this year, but year after year. The

Government is presenting today the solutions identified for the wage law, which also address the situation of teaching staff. The authorities stressed that this topic has been a priority on the Executive’s agenda in recent times.

Prime Minister Vasile Tofan stated today, at the beginning of the Government meeting, that in order to ensure salary growth, it is necessary to strengthen the tax base and increase budget revenues.

This morning, teachers from several districts of the country protested in the Great National Assembly Square and demanded that the authorities honor their commitment to increase the salaries of employees in the system starting September 1.