GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Dec 10, CMC – President Irfaan Ali Tuesday announced a 10 per cent retroactive salary increase for all all public servants an that people with academic qualifications will also benefit financially as of January next year.
Ali, speaking at a breakfast with officers of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) said that the public servants will also receive an eight per cent increase in salaries in 2025 and that these new wage packages follow talks with the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU).
“This 10 per cent increase in salary, which is retroactive from 1st January 2024, will amount to 35 percent cumulative salary increase over the last four years,” Ali said, adding “further, we’ve been able to bring to the union that 2025 will also see an increase in the salary of public servants of eight per cent”.
Ali said in addition that the government will work on various salary scale adjustments from next year in a move aimed at guaranteeing that the workers take home more money, monthly.
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