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2023: a +1.0% residual annual update and revised pay supplement
The salary update for 2023 occurred in two stages: intermediate +1.7%, residual annual +1.0. The latter coincided with an increase of the pension contribution rate by 1%, which resulted in a take-home pay around zero. → Read the flyer.
→ Evolution of pension contribution rate.
The Luxembourg social minimum wage (SSM) grows faster than our salary scales → for contract staff, and → for officials and temporary staff. The Court Administration has decided, like the European Parliament, to extend the ‘pay supplement’ to all basic salaries lower than the SSM by taking out of the balance the expatriation or foreign residence allowance, see → Consultation Conclusions.
Intermediate salary update since January 2023
For a second consecutive year, inflation over the semester ending in December exceeded the 3% threshold. This triggers an intermediate update, calculated at 1.7%. The attached note sheds some light on a complex process. see the updated salary scales →officials and temporary staff; →contract staff, with links to the sources.
The defense of legality has its cost!
Pay supplement getting increasingly necessary
From the 1st of April, yet another indexation at the national level – In Luxembourg, wages follow inflation more closely than in European institutions. The ‘pay supplement’ (safety net) negotiated in 2017 with EPSU-CJ now reaches →grade 3 of contract staff, and even →grade AST/SC 1.