Yesterday, the Council of Ministers approved the final salary amounts for state employees under the Single Salary Table (TSU). The minimum wage for civil servants was also set at 8,758 meticais.

With this approval, the civil service minimum wage will rise from 4,689 meticais to 8,758 meticais, an increase of 87%.

Meanwhile, in addition to the approval of the minimum wage (which covers assistants, agents and workers), a specialist will rise from the current 24,882 meticais to 60,758 meticais, while a senior technician (N1) will rise from 17,539 meticais to 37,758 meticais.

And the decisions don't stop there. The government, through its spokesperson, Inocêncio Impissa, explained at the end of the Council of Ministers session that "with the approval of the new TSU amounts, it was necessary to adjust the basic entry remuneration for the different professional careers in the public administration"

In this regard, senior technicians (N2) and professional technicians will rise from 13,565 meticais to 24,358 meticais and 8,531 meticais to 17,758 meticais, respectively.

The average technician goes from 7,443 meticais to 14,758 meticais, while the technical assistant will earn 10,758 meticais, compared to 5,531 meticais in the previous table.

The government believes that the "adoption of these measures contributes significantly to achieving the regulatory stability that was largely affected and characterized by the Old Wage Scale, which comprised a set of 11 laws, 10 decrees, eight ministerial diplomas and 15 joint orders, the content and subject matter of which was wage determination.

Today, we have a single law and six decrees regulating salary matters," the government spokesman reiterated.