As long as Hungary does not receive the funds due to it, the government can advance a 10 percent teacher salary increase at the expense of the national budget in the current sanctions crisis - this has now been recorded by the government in a decree. The further planned wage increase therefore depends on Brussels and the arrival of EU funds for Hungary, reads the statement of the Ministry of the Interior sent to MTI on Friday evening.
The ministry wrote: the government has stated several times that, as Hungary receives the EU funds due to our country, the largest teacher salary increase since the regime change may follow.
This is also why it is important that the agreements on EU resources concerning our country can be reached soon
they added.
The government's plan is for the average salary of teachers to reach 80 percent of the average salary of graduates by 2025. If the EU funds arrive, compared to the current wage, in 2023, instead of the current 10 percent wage increase, the increase may be 21 percent, 25 percent in 2024, and 29-30 percent in 2025.
"The teacher salary increase is only threatened by the left by continuing to prevent our country from receiving the resources it deserves"
- reads the statement.
They added: the current 10 percent wage increase affects 143,146 school and kindergarten teachers, and the government provides HUF 67.6 billion for the increase.
MTI
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