Government to Allocate Funds for Salaries Worth 25,267 Million Dinars
The government will allocate funds for salaries amounting to 25,267 million dinars (MD), compared to 24,389 MD planned for 2025, representing a 3.6% increase. The Ministry of Finance stated in its report on the 2026 state budget project that the wage bill will stabilize at around 13.4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) next year, compared to 14.1% expected in 2025 and 13.9% recorded in 2024.
Reasons for the Increase
According to the report, the increase in credits is the result of an exceptional effort to contribute to employment aid and ensure automatic operation through recruitment and regularization of precarious employment situations, concerning approximately 51,878 positions, including 22,523 new additional positions for 2026.
Breakdown of the Estimates
These estimates include:
- The continuation of the implementation of the program to regularize the situation of construction workers (a new batch of approximately 12,942 positions)
- The continuation of the program to integrate substitute teachers and professors in primary schools, colleges, and high schools through the application of Decree No. 21 of 2025 (13,837 positions)
- The regularization of physical education teachers (1,066 positions)
- The regularization of the situation of doctors (1,350 positions) for the 2026 batch, including 740 positions for the Ministry of Higher Education, 54 positions for agricultural higher education, 56 positions for military higher education, and 500 positions for other ministries
- The regularization of the situation of contract counselors, supervisors, and laboratory agents (1,226 positions)
- The regularization of the situation of applied license holders (2,601 positions)
Additional Measures
In addition to new recruitments and regularization of precarious employment situations, credits have been allocated for unforeseen and unallocated expenses to cover the financial impact of the new salary and benefit increase program in the public sector over three years (2026-2028).
Rationalization Efforts
In return, efforts to rationalize the wage bill will continue, mainly through the continued implementation of human resource redeployment programs through professional mobility, as well as encouraging the use of leave for business creation.
