Days ago Clarione the list of the 50 branches that are in the orbit of the national government – companies, decentralized bodies, ministries, etc. – that pay the best salaries in the public sector.
Now, the list expands and reaches 136 organizationsincluding the armed and security forces, in which they operate 458,823 people. So here you can see how many people work and what average salary is paid in each of those places .
The information is centralized in the Integrated Base for Public Employment (BIEP) which reports to the secretariat of the management and the public service, an area that operates within the Chief of Staff.
The data are provided by each dependency. Since it was created in 2017, all areas of the national public administration have been required to report month-to-month, among other things, the number of employees and the gross salary (before discounts) that they pay into the employees’ paychecks. Not everyone does. For example, there is no data from public banks, the Central Bank or Aerolineas Argentinas. And in some cases there is outdated information.
The list you publish Clarione collects information in February of this year.
New data likely to be released publicly for the first time, There are several points to emphasize.
– The Argentine army, with 60,843 soldiers, is the area that pays the lowest wages. In February, it reported an average gross salary of just $ 85,503.41.
The rest of the military and security forces are doing a little better, but not that much. Gendarmerie (38,954 employees) pays $ 147,291.57; Naval Prefecture of Argentina (21,481 employees) pay $ 142,207.63: the Navy (26,810 employees) paid $ 140,748.03; the Federal Penitentiary Service (15,472) pays an average gross salary of $ 124,663.61 and the Joint Chiefs of Staff (298 people) pay $ 87,130.29. The Argentine Federal Police takes off from this plan: he pays an average gross salary of $ 195,229.22 to his actual $ 31,941. Air Force data is not displayed.
The accuracy of these figures has been confirmed to Clarin by official sources. These sources made it clear that the salaries of the armed forces they had improvements of 7% in April and another 10% in May.
At the time of comparisons, an official figure. The Ministry of Labor reported that the average salary of the 6 million registered workers in the private sector is $ 122,583while the median, while the median is only $ 91,866.
This indicates that there are far more below average salaries than above. Yet there is only four official employees that are below the private sector average gross wage: I am the Technical and Financial Cooperation Body of the Federal Penitentiary Service, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, the Argentine Army and the LT10 radio of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. At the top of the list are two companies linked to the electricity sector.
the state company Argentine nuclear power plant (POT), the electrical power transmission system of the special unit (USER) and the Federal Administration of Public Revenue (AFIP) It is the three state agencies (technically called decentralized agencies) that pay the best wages within the state sphere.
The highest salaries are paid, as mentioned, in the company Argentine nuclear power plant, the company that produces electricity through the management of the Embalse and Atucha I and II nuclear power plants. In addition to the high qualification of its workers, the high salaries (at least in the public sector ranking) are explained by the fact that NASA employees are regulated by the collective labor agreement of the Luz y Fuerza union, which guarantees its members 16 salaries annually, in addition to productivity bonuses. NASA’s average gross salary, as reported in the BIEP database, was $ 746,920 pesos in February. 3,301 people work at NASA.
Secondly appears the Electricity transmission system of the special unit, which controls the national electricity system and works contracts throughout the national territory. It depends on the Ministry of Economy. Its employees received, on average, a gross salary of $ 642,316. High salaries but only 7 employees are enrolled in the BIEP.
Among the best known public bodies, the AFIP He is the one who pays the best salaries. On average, its 21,000 employees (adding AFIP, DGI and customs) received $ 559,806 pesos in February.
AFIP is one of the official agencies with the largest number of employees. Its parity is discussed by the Association of Tax and Public Revenue Employees (AEFIP) directly with the AFIP authorities. This organization has its own budget which, of course, feeds on the taxes paid by Argentine taxpayers.
AFIP employees, explained to Clarín in this organization, have two salary receipts a month. One for the salary itself and another (mid-month) which is a payment associated with the so-called “hierarchy account”, a sum of money linked to the evolution of the collection. In other words, a part of the total collection (it was 2% and today it is 0.79%) is retained by the AFIP employees themselves. This ranking account has a proportionately greater impact on workers in lower positions.
AFIP sources explained that the average salary could be inflated in a few months due to vacation (another salary). In addition to the salary, AFIP lawyers also receive fees that are calculated in relation to the favorable sentences they obtain for the lawsuits filed against taxpayers. And in the case of customs employees, a large part of the salary is explained by overtime “which is paid very well,” according to AFIP.
In fourth place appears the service of External Relations (2,753 employees), whose salary is linked to that of the judiciary and has staff abroad who, logically, earn higher salaries to have purchasing power based on the countries in which they work. They charge $ 518,393 on average.
In fifth place is the Gas regulatory body (Enargas) the body that regulates the gas market and defines the tariffs for the service. In February, it recorded an average gross salary of 480,298 pesos for its 611 employees. The gas regulator is not financed with funds from the national treasury, but does so through its own resources such as payments made by gas companies.
Sixth place goes to Tax Court (204 employees), which is where lawsuits for tax matters are resolved: declared wages of $ 476,517.
Home exchange, in seventh place, he paid salaries of $ 464,088. The Casa de Moneda (1,400 employees) is of interest. She is working 24 hours a day to provide low-denomination bills, with heroes, heroines and even pets – to the Argentines. There must be a lot of overtime to inflate those wages.
The eighth place goes to Argentine Aircraft Factory (Fadea) whose 856 employees received, on average, a gross salary of 451,819 pesos.
In ninth place is the PAMI. The organization receives funds from social projects, workers and the National Treasury. This addiction which employs 13,028 people paid an average salary of $ 428,618 in February.
The top ten ends with the Supreme Court, which reported median salaries of $ 396,385 for its 2,457 employees. Although he is said to have denounced basic salaries that do not exactly reflect what judges and workers of the highest court receive. Equally surprising is that the Supreme Court carries lower average salaries than those of PAMI.
This ranking could easily be led by the Central bank, but this body stopped reporting its data to the BIEP in 2018. But a reconstruction can be done. For example, the median salary for a principal analyst that year was $ 152,602. The Central Bank updates the salaries of its staff according to the parity of La Bancaria. Assuming the union at least equalized inflation, the 2018 salary today reaches $ 615,000 pesos.
At the time of comparisons, an official figure. The Ministry of Labor reported that the average salary of the 6 million registered workers in the private sector is $ 122,583, while the median, while the median is right $ 91,866. This indicates that there are far more below average salaries than above.
It is also useful to compare the salaries paid by the public sector with those paid by the private sector.
Last week, the international human resources firm Adecco released a report in which, in the case of Argentina, it indicated which salaries are paid in different positions: A head of legal affairs receives a salary ranging from $ 288,029 at $ 660,133.
A CEO earns between $ 482,700 and $ 1,125,697.
A business manager earns between $ 384,521 and $ 939,245.
A marketing manager ranges from $ 265,648 to $ 883,659.
A plant manager earns between $ 323,203 and $ 768,620.
An industrial manager between $ 250,000 and $ 1,068,510.
An industrial manager between $ 650,000 and $ 1,147,990.
The BIEP was created in 2017 and was conceived as a complete plan for the management of salary information and human resources for personnel who provide services in the National Administration, Decentralized Bodies, Social Security Institutions, Enterprises and State Companies, Public and Trust Funds.
Gustavo Bazzan
Source: Clarin
