After the announcement by Prime Minister Albin Kurti about the salary increase for the public sector from January next year, the chairman of the Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK), Lumir Abdixhiku, has reacted with a promise of his own for deeper changes.
Through a post on Facebook, Abdixhiku has promised that the salary coefficient will become 150 euros in the first week of his government.
"With the great inflation crisis, with the unprecedented increase in prices, all public servants deserve decent salaries from the state they work for. They don't have these salaries today! They will have these salaries from the first week of our Government. This is the difference", he wrote Abdixhiku on Facebook publishing a graph with the coefficients.
The graph states that salaries for teachers will increase to 840 euros, for nurses 825 euros, for police officers 750 euros, for soldiers 840 euros, for firefighters 750 euros and for general practitioners 1110 euros.
Meanwhile, the Government of Kosovo has decided today that from January of next year to increase the salaries of public sector employees by 55 euros per month, while from July there will be an increase of 110 euros.
Teachers, policemen, nurses, soldiers and firefighters will benefit from this increase.
According to the presentation of the table, teachers currently have a basic salary of 616 euros, while with an increase they will receive 726 euros.
Policemen from 550 euros will receive 660 euros, nurses from 605 will receive 715 euros, firefighters from 550 euros will receive 660 euros and soldiers from 616 euros will receive 726 euros.