If on average, the salary of hospital officials has increased on the pay sheet, it has actually decreased. Dreets (Regional Directorate of Economy, Employment, Labor and Solidarity), in a study published on July 23, indicates that in 2023, the average net salary increased by 3.9% for these agents to reach an average of 2,842 euros. But with the inflation which was maintained at a high level (4.9%), their salary fell by 0.9% in constant euros.
This decrease is comparable to that observed in the private sector. In 2023, the average full -time equivalent wages of private employees fell 0.8% in constant euros according to INSEE. Among the 1.2 million agents of the hospital public service, the vast majority (70%) are civil servants. For them, the decrease in constant euros was the most substantial. They lost 1.4% salary.
Officials of the highest categories more concerned
Officials from the highest categories, A and B, are those who have known the largest drop (-2.7% and -1.7% respectively). As for category C agents, their salary increased by 0.9% in 2023 despite inflation. This is explained in particular by “The exceptional purchasing power bonus which particularly concerns this category, as well as revaluations of the minimum treatment in January and May 2023”explains the Dreets.
Only 22% of hospital officials are not civil servants. The latter saw their average remuneration increase by 1.2% in constant euros to reach an average of 2,132 euros. The remuneration of doctors remained stable over the period and increased by 0.1% after having experienced a decrease of 1.5% in 2022. In 2023, the average remuneration of doctors is 6,812 euros net.
Wage disparities within the hospital public service decreased
In 2023, without taking into account inflation, the average full -time equivalent salary increased by 3.9% in euros current compared to 2022, after having already increased by 4.8% the previous year. This increase is first explained by “The 1.5% increase in the value of the public service index from July 2023, after +3.5% in July 2022”justifies the Dreets. The latter advances other reasons: “The successive revaluations of the minimum processing index of treatment (from 352 to 361, +9 points) in connection with those of the minimum wage, the salary measures provided for in the health segur agreements whose rise in charge ends in 2022, as well as the overmaration of overtime in the hospitals»»adds the body.
Dreets indicates that the wage disparities between the highest and the lowest wages decreased in 2023 in the hospital public service. This evolution is explained both by the “Decrease in wages in constant euros of the most paid agents” and by various measures to preserve the purchasing power of weaker wages such as “Payment of the exceptional purchasing power bonus to agents whose gross salary is less than 3,250 euros”.
