The remuneration of private sector employees increased more than twice that of civil servants between 2011 and 2021, according to figures published on Wednesday by INSEE on its website. In the private sector, “between 2011 and 2021, the net full-time equivalent salary increased on average by 4.9% in constant euros”, an indicator that measures compensation adjusted for inflation.
This corresponds to an increase in salaries “of 0.4% on average annually,” indicates the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies on its site.
During the same period, “the average net salary in full-time equivalent increased by 2.1% in constant euros in the public service (that is, +0.2% on average each year),” according to INSEE. After having experienced a “slight decline” in constant euros in the 2010s, the remuneration of public officials has “rebounded strongly” since 2020, in particular thanks to the revaluation measures adopted in hospitals following the Covid pandemic. 19.
Base salary freeze
For civil servants alone (a term that therefore excludes contract agents), the average net salary has increased by 2.6% in ten years. But the remuneration of officials in categories A (-1.1% in constant euros) and B (-0.2%) fell during the period, notes INSEE. These figures are published while civil servants’ salaries (their base salary) were frozen between 2010 and 2022, with the exception of a 1.2% increase in 2016-2017.
Since then, the government has granted two general increases to public employees, up to 3.5% in 2022 and 1.5% in 2023.
In the study published on Wednesday, the INSEE specifies that the salary “includes the base salary (or salary), but also bonuses, remuneration for overtime or additional hours worked, employee savings, other compensation and additional remuneration (residence subsidy, family supplement, etc.) and benefits in kind.
Although salary progression has been slower than in the private sector, the public sector, on the contrary, stands out with smaller salary gaps between men and women. In 2021, the average remuneration of men exceeded that of women by 11.3% in the public sector and by 14.5% in companies.
Source: BFM TV
