Pay Rise For Civil Servants And Teachers To Be Backdated To July

The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) chairperson has announced that Civil servants including teachers are set to receive a pay rise of between 7 percent to 10 percent, with the adjustments retroactively applied from July 1, 2023.

The announcement was made by SRC chairperson Lyn Mengich. She said that the National Treasury allocated a 21.7 billion shillings budget for civil servants for the financial year 2023/24 pursuant to the constitutional principle of affordability and fiscal sustainability.

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Teachers, doctors, nurses, police, military, and officers working under the Executive are among the civil servants affected by the increments are

According to the SRC, the increments will be done based on the job level and sectors, with the Executive receiving an allocation of Ksh126 million representing 0.6 percent of the total money for the increments.

With an allocation of 628.6 billion shillings, the Ministry of Education received the lion’s share of the 2023/2024 budget, about  27.4 percent of the government’s total budget estimates.

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The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) received 316.7 billion shillings for the promotion, hiring, and training of teachers. Free primary education has been allocated 12.5 billion shillings, and 65.4 billion shillings will go to free day secondary education which is inclusive of insurance and NHIF cover.

78 million shillings were allocated to State officers in Parliament which accounts for 0.4 percent of the total allocation. Their counterparts in the Judiciary will get Ksh305 million representing 1.4 percent. On the other hand, county state officers shall get Ksh408 million (1.9 percent).

On June 30^th, the government approved a 7 to 10 percent salary increment for civil servants. The president made this remark while at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) that there was a need to cushion civil servants from the harsh economic times

“I know there is a proposal by SRC for the increase of salaries of different cadres of both civil servants and other public servants. So our teachers, policemen, military space, and those working in government, we have agreed that from tomorrow your salaries will be adjusted between 7 and 10 percent,” Ruto said during the launch of the new e-citizen platform.

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