According to the information of the State Chancellery available on the Cabinet of Ministers’ website, ministers’ salaries will increase by 195 euros and MPs’ by 110 euros upon approval of the 2025 state budget by the Saeima.
Applying the cap on the increase in the remuneration fund at 2.6%, the maximum pre-tax monthly salary of the President of the State, the Speaker of the Saeima, the Prime Minister, the President of the Constitutional Court and the President of the Supreme Court will increase by 219 euros. The maximum monthly salary for these officials in 2025 is planned at 8 659 euros, while this year they receive 8 440 euros.
The salaries of the members of the Saeima, on the other hand, will be 110 euros higher if the cap on salary increases is applied. While this year’s salary amounted to 4 220 euros, next year it is planned to be 4 330 euros before taxes. In 2025 5.2 million euros are planned to cover the salaries of MPs, which is 133 308 euros more than in 2024, the Saeima press service told LETA.
Ministers’ salaries will be 195 euros higher next year. The monthly salary of ministers is planned at 7 670 euros next year, instead of 7 475 euros currently. Parliamentary secretaries’ salaries are set to rise by 173 euros next year. While this year’s salary is 6 631 euros, the maximum salary for parliamentary secretaries in 2025 will be 6 804 euros.
Given the tight budgetary conditions, there have also been calls to freeze politicians’ salaries in the coming years, but this has not been supported by politicians themselves.
The State Chancellery notes that the implementation of the remuneration reform started on the 1st of July 2022, which was necessary in order to ensure a “fair, comprehensible and in line with the labour market trends” remuneration system for public administration employees, as well as to balance the salaries of the legislative, executive and judiciary powers.
For officials approved and appointed by the Saeima, the salary changes take effect from the 1st of January 2023. In order to implement the salary reform, the Law on Remuneration of Officials and Employees of State and Local Government Institutions was amended accordingly. According to this law, ministers’ salaries are determined by adjusting certain coefficients to the basic monthly salary, e.g. the coefficient for the Prime Minister is seven and for ministers it is 6.2.
The State Chancellery points out that the base salary changes every year and the changes depend on the economic growth of the country two years ago, however, taking into account the very rapid inflation in 2022 and the corresponding increase in salaries in the economy as a whole, a provision was included in the Law on the State Budget for 2023 and Budget Framework for 2023, 2024 and 2025, which slowed down the increase in the salaries of public officials. While according to the Law on Remuneration of Officials and Employees of State and Local Government Institutions, the salaries of officials should have increased by 12.4% this year, in reality the salary increase was set at no more than 6%, the officials said.
As reported, the Government has endorsed a cap on the growth of the 2025 remuneration fund at a maximum of 2.6% compared to the 2024 updated plan on the 31st of July this year.