CYPRUS CIVIL SERVANTS' SALARIES CLOSE TO EU AVERAGE, SAYS SURVEY [Table]

 in-cyprus 4 October 2020 -by Josephine Koumettou

A new Civil Servants’ Confederation (ADEDY) survey has found that Cyprus civil servants’ salaries are close to the EU average of €2,321 (€2,750 Eurozone average), Phileleftheros reports.

The survey divides civil servant salaries in Europe into three bands, the lower one with salaries up to €1.500, a middle group and a high income group.

ADEDY’s ranking places Bulgaria at the lower end with EUR 550 gross monthly income and Denmark at the top end with EUR 5,741.

Country	Civil servants’ gross monthly income (EUR)	Buying power index	Housing and utilities costs (EUR)	Annual health and education spending per resident (EUR)
Bulgaria	550	47.8	4,296	851
Croatia	874	66	6,567	1,351
Lithuania	946	62.9	5,676	1,000
Portugal	1,000	84	6,006	1,938
Slovenia	1,000	83.8	6,636	1,316
Greece	1,065	84.1	6,481	1,868
Slovakia	1,153	68	6,326	987
Poland	1,181	56.6	6,528	1,143
Czechia	1,220	65.7	3,427	537
Malta	1,582	82	2,376	2,056
Austria	2,177	106.1	9,212	2,285
Estonia	2,268	75.3	717	1,364
EU 28	2,321	100	6,486	1,890
Spain	2,380	91.6	9,667	2,112
Cyprus	2,656	87.8	8,529	3,449
Eurozone 19	2,750	101.5	6,874	2,117
Belgium	2,750	109.1	10,366	2,936
France	3,236	107.9	6,505	1,895
Netherlands	3,255	111	10,178	1,695
Latvia	3,563	71.2	1,105	1,079
Ireland	3,988	123.8	11,015	3,847
Italy	4,400	100.5	10,775	1,792
Germany	4,464	103.3	10,492	2,382
Luxembourg	4.500	125.2	17,811	2,347
Finland	5,000	121.1	10,186	,154
Sweden	5,361	125.8	9,248	1,587
Denmark	5,741	140.7	7,839	1,984

Source: ADEDY/Phileleftheros

THE TARGET SALARIES

Interestingly, the survey also estimated the required shift in civil servant salaries to reach optimal index figures for each country, given that the cost of life remains unchanged.

In Greece, for example, ADEDY estimates that salaries need to go up by 160% to reach €2,766, in Portugal by 165.3% to reach €2,653.

Luxembourg salaries, the survey notes, should go up 115% to €9,677.

For Cyprus, average salaries would need to go up by 34.9% to reach €3,584 and for Italy 33% to €5,851.

No shift is required, it was mentioned, for Bulgaria, Czechia, Lithuania and Malta.