Angola proposes 10% pay rise for public employees in 2027
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Mercado
The Angolan government proposes a 10% increase in public sector salaries in 2027, although the 2024 three-year agreement provided for a cumulative 100% rise and only 35% has been granted so far. Health insurance for all public employees is also due to take effect in January, according to Minister Teresa Dias, quoted by Mercado.
The Angolan government has proposed a 10% increase in public sector salaries in 2027, at a meeting to review the three-year pay agreement with trade union federations in Luanda on Tuesday, Mercado reports. The unions consider the offer far below the commitment made in 2024, which provided for a cumulative 100% increase over three years.
According to the Minister of Public Administration, Labour and Social Security, Teresa Dias, state employees will also receive health insurance from January. The scheme will be funded by the Cofre de Providência da Função Pública, the public service provident fund, which has been reactivated and will receive funding from the state general budget. Priority will go to public employees who do not yet have this type of coverage.
The increases granted so far total 35%, according to Francisco Jacinto, secretary-general of the General Confederation of Independent and Free Trade Unions of Angola: 25% in 2025 and 10% in 2026. He said that more than half of the promised increase therefore remains to be secured. The government estimates that 80% of the agreement has been implemented, according to Teresa Dias.
The unions will submit the 2027 offer to their internal bodies. They had accepted the 10% increase in 2026 after the government cited the need to update the professional grades of more than 70,000 public employees. Francisco Jacinto says that more than 5,000 employees cannot retire because of these outdated grades.
