Some 730,000 National Education agents will receive an “exceptional purchasing power bonus” at the same time as their October salary, of 380 euros for teachers and 500 euros for other agents, the minister announced this Thursday. Gabriel Attal.
“In October, we will pay an exceptional purchasing power bonus to 730,000 ministry agents, that’s more than one in two,” said the minister on the TF1 news set.
“Measure of justice”
In detail, “500,000 teachers (…) will receive an average of 380 euros” and “230,000 other staff”, notably those supporting students with disabilities (AESH), will receive an average of 500 euros, he said.
Asked about a gesture for the purchasing power of teachers in the face of inflation, Gabriel Attal first underlined that “this school year, we reflect a very strong commitment from the President of the Republic, it is the unprecedented revaluation of our teachers.” “Each teacher this school year earns between 125 and 250 euros net more than the previous school year,” he continued, speaking of a “measure of justice”.
In the general context of inflation, added the minister, “it is hard, particularly for those who have low salaries in my ministry” and “this is the reason” why this exceptional bonus will be paid. To benefit from it, you must have received less than 39,000 euros gross between July 2022 and June 2023, or less than 2,600 euros net per month (excluding overtime), the minister’s office was told.
A “lure”
Questioned by AFP, Sophie Vénétitay, general secretary of Snes-FSU, the first secondary education union (middle and high schools), stressed that “this is a one-off bonus, while we are asking for a significant increase in value for everyone “. “The salary file cannot be closed with a bonus,” she warned.
Faced with high inflation, which has returned to levels not seen since the 1980s since 2022, the government announced before the summer that an exceptional bonus of 300 to 800 euros gross would be paid to public employees earning less than 3,250 euros gross. per month.
In September, the Minister of the Civil Service Stanislas Guerini specified that this bonus, mentioned in June, would finally be paid in October. If state civil servants and hospital civil servants will automatically receive this bonus from this fall, its payment is optional in communities, which has led the unions representing the local civil service to speak of a “lure”.