Public sector employees to get wage hike of up to 7 percent in 2025

Public sector employees will get a salary increase of up to 7 percent in 2025, Finance Minister Zbyněk Stanjura said following talks with the unions on Wednesday. However the wage hikes will not be the same for all employees and there will be further negotiations on the pay rises for individual professions. Only teachers can be certain of a seven per cent wage hike since, according to a legal provision, the government must bring their income up to 130 percent of the average wage next year. Trade unions earlier demanded a pay rise on 10 percent for all public sector employees as of September of this year, but the government rejected the demand, saying the money was not available in this year’s state budget.