The government announced in Parliament the availability of 1 billion meticais (approximately $15.5 million) to enable the gradual resumption of administrative acts, including promotions, career progressions, and job category changes within the civil service.
“With the recent approval of Decree No. 36/2025, of 28 October, on the Regulation of the Career, Remuneration and Professional Qualification Subsystem, the conditions have been created to move forward with the process,” said Prime Minister Benvinda Levi, quoted by the Mozambique News Agency.
According to the Prime Minister, a review identified around 180,500 public servants who meet the requirements to benefit from these administrative actions. She stressed that the 1 billion meticais allocation aims to ensure a gradual rollout, taking into account the country’s current macro-fiscal constraints.
In March, the Ministry of Finance revealed that the state spent a total of 209 billion meticais on wages and salaries in 2025, above the initial budgeted 205.5 billion meticais — an increase of 3%.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended that Mozambique eliminate the 13th salary in the public sector in 2026 and reduce the wage bill to 11% of GDP by 2028 as part of fiscal consolidation efforts. The IMF argues that wage containment should be the main driver of expenditure reduction, given that the public wage bill reached 14.4% of GDP in 2024 — around half of total government spending and among the highest in the region.
The implementation of the Single Wage Tariff (TSU) has faced strong opposition from various professional groups, including doctors and teachers, due to salary delays and cuts, also affecting security forces and triggering strikes in health and education.
Approved in 2022 to reduce wage disparities and control public spending, the TSU increased salaries by around 36%, raising monthly expenditure from 11.6 billion meticais to 15.8 billion meticais, according to previous government data.
Source: Diário Económico
