The budget - funded employees will have higher pays and the current salary system will be reformed so as to ensure a continuous rise in the incomes of salary earners, stated Prime Minister Pavel Filip, commenting on the draft law on the unitary salary system in the budgetary sector that was approved by the Government. “The document will contribute to creating a transparent, equitable and attractive salary system that will remunerate the professional performance of employees from each area of activity,” stated the Premier.

Under the reform concept, the salary will consist of the fixed part and the variable part. The variable part will depend on the employee’s performance and particularities of the job.

The law guarantees the keeping of the salary raised until now if a salary lower than the previous one is set for an employee in accordance with the new salary rules.

Pavel Filip noted that none of the budget-funded employees will have a salary lower than the minimum subsistence level of 2,000 lei following the implementation of the reform. The difference between the first pay grade and the last pay grade will be of 15 levels, not 33 as now.

The reform in 2019-2021 will be implemented at a cost of 3.9 billion lei. A 30% rise in the average monthly salary of employees of state budget-funded institutions and an over 55% rise in the salaries of employees of institutions funded from local budgets were projected for 2021.