GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—President Irfaan Ali Tuesday announced a 10 percent retroactive salary increase for all public servants and 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 public servants will also receive an eight percent increase in salaries in 2025 and that these new wage packages follow talks with the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU).
“This 10 percent increase in salary, which is retroactive from 1st January 2024, will amount to a 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 percent”.
Ali said that the government will also work on various salary scale adjustments from next year in a move aimed at guaranteeing that the workers take home more money monthly.
The head of state said that qualification allowances will also be introduced from January 1, 2025 and that individuals with qualifications from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) will also get a monthly allowance of GUY$15,000 (One Guyana dollar = US$0.004 cents).
Ali said people with a Master’s Degree will receive GUY$22,000 monthly, while those with a doctoral degree will receive GUY$32,000 monthly.
“This is in keeping with our commitment of incentivizing education, incentivizing training, and the development of our human capital,” he said, adding that members of the disciplined forces will also benefit from increases to housing and risk allowances.
Ali said eligible health workers would receive a 5,000 annual increase in uniform allowances and GUY$10,000 for public servants. From January 1, 2025, public servants on secondment transfers to hinterland locations would also receive a monthly housing allowance of GUY$35,000.
In addition, there would be a GUY$8,000 station allowance for public servants serving in certain riverine and hinterland areas, and Ali said there would be a 50 percent increase in risk allowance and a 104 percent increase in motor car and travel allowances.
Ali said the government would grant 100 duty-free concessions annually for staff nurses and above, with “priority given to persons with the most extended years of service and those who have never benefitted from a duty-free concession.
“This would ensure that the criteria for those who are granted the duty-free also serve the time, which is five years and three years, so it is an incentive for the retention of our nurses also,” he said, adding, “from this announcement, you can see this government’s commitment to every category of people of our country is unquestionable.”
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