In a decision that generates anger and controversy, the Government of Javier Milei decided to grant a salary increase to ministers and high-ranking officials. The measure was made official through the Decree 931/2025, published this Tuesday in the Official Gazette. They will receive the accumulated percentage of increase granted to the personnel of the National Public Administration between January 2024 and July 2025. Although the text does not clarify how much exactly the beneficiaries will receive for this increase, From the ATE union they reported that the increase reaches almost 90%.
In this way, Milei rewards the labor reform managers who will try to vote in February in the Senate, like the Secretary of Labor Julio Corderothe president of the Council of May, the head of the Cabinet of Ministers, Manuel Adorni and the Minister of Deregulation and Transformation of the State, Federico Sturzenegger.
It should be noted that, according to official data, Today a minister earns $3,584,006 and a Secretary earns $3,282,709. Rodolfo Aguiar, general secretary of ATE, described the decision as “an obscenity in the face of the crisis that the entire Argentine people are going through. They are shameless and shameless,” he said, reflecting the unrest that affects thousands of workers who are losing purchasing power month after month.
The decree clarifies that this increase will not be for President Milei himself or for Vice President Victoria Villarruel, and that it will not be retroactive either. However, the decision to benefit the leadership of the Government with such an increasewhile the majority of the population suffers adjustment and inflation, makes evident the priorities of those who govern for those at the top.
Besides, They repealed article 4 of Decree No. 235effective since March 9, 2024. It had been approved with the intention that the salaries of senior officials of the national government would be frozen, according to the amounts received until December 31, 2023.
In the foundations of the measure, the Executive argues that the intention is to ensure that the State’s top management positions have an “adequate, competitive and coherent” salary scheme. In addition, the Government justified the increase in salaries for senior officials by arguing that these positions imply great responsibilities. A display of total cynicism after the ruling party has tried to annul the University Financing and Emergency Disability Financing laws.
The decree that makes the salary increase official relates it directly to the fiscal surplus that Milei’s management claims to have achieved and to the supposed “macroeconomic order” that they proclaim. According to the official text, this rearrangement of salaries comes after a first strong adjustment to public spending, and is presented as part of a long-term strategy to build a “Efficient and professional” status.
In this context, the Executive frames the measure as a step within a larger process of transformation of public employment. The stated goal is to leave behind a system that the government said was disorganized, lacked transparency and did not offer adequate incentives for state workers. This reform aims to ensure that state workers are evaluated according to their performance and “merit”, a flag that the ruling party raises as part of its plan to “reorganize” the State.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
