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Public officials’ salaries to rise 3.5% next year

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Public officials' salaries to rise 3.5% next year

The government will increase public officials’ salaries by 3.5% next year. President Lee Jae-myung will receive 271.77 million Korean won. The starting salary for low-career public officials in grades 7–9 will rise by 6.6%.

The Ministry of Personnel Management announced on the 30th that the revised regulations on public officials’ salary regulations and allowances, which include these details, passed a Cabinet meeting held at Cheong Wa Dae chaired by President Lee Jae-myung.

According to the Ministry of Personnel Management, public officials’ salaries will be increased by at least 3.5%, regardless of rank. This is the highest increase rate in nine years since the 3.5% increase in 2017. Last year saw a 2.5% increase, and this year a 3.0% increase.

Consequently, President Lee Jae-myung’s annual salary will increase from 262.58 million Korean won this year to 271.77 million Korean won next year, a rise of 9.19 million Korean won. Prime Minister Kim Min-seok’s annual salary will be 210.69 million Korean won, while Deputy Prime Ministers Koo Yun-cheol (Economy) and Bae Kyung-hoon (Science and Technology), along with the head of the Board of Audit and Inspection (currently vacant), will receive 159.4 million Korean won. Ministers will receive 154.93 million Korean won, and vice-ministerial level officials, including the heads of the Ministry of Personnel Management, Ministry of Government Legislation, Ministry of Food and Drug Safety, Trade Minister, and the head of the Science and Technology Innovation Headquarters, will receive 152.69 million Korean won. Other vice-ministerial level officials will receive 150.46 million Korean won.

Meanwhile, the salaries of low-career practical public officials will receive an additional increase beyond the 3.5%. For example, starting salaries (1st pay grade) for grades 7–9 will rise by 6.6% compared to this year, combining the common 3.5% increase with an additional 3.1%. The salaries of junior military officers, including sergeants and corporals, as well as second lieutenants and first lieutenants, will also receive additional increases. Following last year’s additional increase for grade 9, grade 8 will see an additional increase in overtime pay next year.

Consequently, the total annual compensation (salary and allowances) for a grade 9, 1st pay grade public official next year will be 34.28 million Korean won, with a monthly average of 2.86 million Korean won. This is an increase of 2.05 million Korean won annually and 170,000 Korean won monthly compared to this year’s 32.22 million Korean won annually and 2.69 million Korean won monthly.

The Ministry of Personnel Management also announced improvements in the treatment of public officials responsible for disaster and safety management, as well as police and firefighting officials. The disaster safety allowance for disaster and safety management officials will include an additional 50,000 Korean won monthly for heavy workload and 50,000 Korean won monthly for punctuality. The new allowances will be differentially distributed based on job difficulty and duration of responsibility. The emergency duty allowance for officials working at disaster sites will increase from 8,000 Korean won to 16,000 Korean won, with the monthly cap rising from 120,000 Korean won to 180,000 Korean won.

The hazardous duty allowance for police and firefighting officials will increase from 70,000 Korean won to 80,000 Korean won monthly. Police officers handling crowd accidents and firefighters exclusively managing emergency rescue control teams will newly receive a special duty allowance of 80,000 Korean won monthly. The daily cap for the National Police Agency’s 112 emergency dispatch allowance and the National Fire Agency’s fire suppression and rescue/emergency medical dispatch allowance will also increase from 30,000 Korean won to 40,000 Korean won.

The treatment of civil complaint handlers will also be improved. Considering that the majority of civil complaints are submitted electronically, civil complaint duty allowances of 30,000 Korean won monthly will be provided not only to those working in civil complaint offices but also to non-face-to-face and online civil complaint handlers. The civil complaint duty allowance for civil complaint office workers will increase from 50,000 Korean won to 70,000 Korean won monthly.

The recipients of the ‘special performance bonus,’ which provides an additional 50% of the top-tier performance bonus or performance-based salary to outstanding public officials, will be significantly expanded from the current top 2% to 5%. The scope of the ‘critical duty allowance,’ given to those engaged in high-importance and high-difficulty core tasks, will also be expanded from 24% to 27% of each institution’s workforce.

Currently, military personnel cannot simultaneously receive the critical duty allowance, hazardous duty allowance, and special location duty allowance, but they will be able to do so starting next year. The medical duty allowances for pharmaceutical and nursing officials will increase from 70,000 Korean won to 140,000 Korean won and from 50,000 Korean won to 100,000 Korean won monthly, respectively. An additional heavy workload allowance of 100,000 Korean won monthly will be added to the air traffic control duty allowance for air traffic controllers.

The public officials’ meal allowance, which had been frozen at 140,000 Korean won monthly for five years since 2020, will increase to 160,000 Korean won next year. The duty substitution allowance, paid to public officials substituting for those on leave, will henceforth be provided to all duty substitutes regardless of the type of leave taken by the original officials.

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