00:00Good news, the employees of the government have reached their first increase in their salary.
00:08Now, the Budget Department has issued a budget for its implementation.
00:13Ivan Mayrina is on the scene.
00:19The Department of Budget and Management issued a budget circular today
00:22detailing the first tranche or first decrease in the government's salary.
00:27We have already sent the guidelines to our national government agencies
00:32so that they can start the computation of the adjustments.
00:36The civilian government personnel in the Executive Branch,
00:40in the Legislative, or Congress and Senate,
00:42and Judiciary, or Courts,
00:45Constitutional Commissions,
00:46GOCC,
00:47and local governments,
00:49are not included here because they have their own salary structure.
00:54Within four years, from 2024 to 2027,
00:58government employees will receive a high salary,
01:01depending on their salary grade or rank.
01:04A teacher who is below the salary grade 11, for example,
01:08currently receives P27,000 per month,
01:11after the first tranche this year,
01:13will receive P1,512.
01:17A new P1,512 will be added in 2025.
01:21P1,681 in 2026,
01:24and P1,682 in the last tranche in 2027.
01:28Accordingly, after four years,
01:31the salary of a teacher will increase to more than P6,000.
01:35Aside from the high salary,
01:36it is also expected that the government will increase the medical allowance
01:40to P7,000 per year per employee,
01:43which is still part of the additional benefit.
01:45The first decrease in the high salary was effective on January 1, 2024
01:49for the national agencies.
01:51That's why this is retroactive,
01:53or it will chase the expected high salary from January.
01:56For the local governments,
01:58they need to issue an ordinance to make this effective.
02:01They have allocated P36 billion for the high salary this year.
02:06What the President said is to ensure that whatever adjustment that we do,
02:12it makes it competitive versus the private rates,
02:16the market rates in the private sector.
02:19So we try our best to make it competitive.
02:23For GMA Integrated News,
02:25Ivan Mejrina for 24 Hours.
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