It's easy to say "state". A permanent job in the public administration is a goal for many, but depending on the work performed, salary differences can vary greatly. Earning the most of all are senior executives of tax agencies, which pocket around 220 euros a year (a ceiling that cannot be crossed by law). Who works in the school, on the other hand – including technical-auxiliary staff – takes home 22 euros: exactly one tenth of the wealthiest executives, but also much less than the average of other civil servants, which is between 30 and 40 euros.
The numbers are contained in the update on state salaries by Aran (Public Administration Negotiation Agency). According to the analysis, based on data from the State General Accounting Office for 2014, the top executives of Revenue, Customs, State Property and Monopolies they earn more than their peers employed in non-economic public bodies, such as INPS o Inail (217 thousand) or ministries (178mila).
On the other hand, it must be considered that senior management comprises only a few hundred people: for 62 first level managers of the tax agencies there are 52.570 total employees.
As for own simple employees, however, to pocket the most are those of independent authorities, such as Antitrust or Agcom (74 thousand euros), which in the ranking precede both the non-executive personnel of Palazzo Chigi (49 thousand), both – and by a large number – the employees of Regions, Municipality e ministries (about 28 thousand).
As for non-executive law enforcement personnel, the lowest earning workers are i firefighters, with just over 31 thousand euros, while the armed forces there are just over 35 and the police corps at 38.
The situation of the university professors, whose average salary is almost 71 euros (but we are only talking about permanent staff).
The ranking of civil servant salaries comes just as the Government is grappling with the renewal of contracts. In the original plans there was an intervention of 300 million to increase wages, but the Executive has promised that it will increase the allocation in the 2017 Stability law. The final result, however, will also depend on the rules that will be decided to apply.
The main problem to overcome has to do with the law Brunetta. The rule, which dates back to 2009 and which has so far remained on paper (because it should have come into force with the first contractual round following the renewal, which has been frozen until now), would require the following scheme to be applied:
– half of the productivity budget to the 25% of state workers with the highest report cards;
– the other half of the productivity budget to workers with average standard performance, to be found in 50% of the total workforce;
– not even a euro for productivity, however, to the other 25% of workers who rank below standards.
Now that government-union bargaining has reopened, these rules could be applied. But that is not said: the hypotheses on the table are different and the possibility of a bridging contract, which would make it possible to use the few available resources for everyone, still postponing the revision of the rules.
Moreover, the overcoming of the merit brackets mechanism and the widening of the matters to be left to trade union negotiations are issues that the Government intends to tackle with the consolidated text of the public service implemented by the Madia reform, but the Council of Ministers has until February to approve the decree.
