Salary of cultural workers to rise from January
Employees in the cultural sector will get a 20 percent wage hike from Jan. 1, Miklós Kásler, the minister of human resources, said on Wednesday.
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The pay rise is a reflection of the government’s recognition of their work as well as an incentive to stick to their profession, the minister said in a video posted on Facebook.
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Hungary’s government treats culture as a priority, he said, adding that Hungary’s spending in this area over the past four years has been the highest in the European Union in proportion to GDP.
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As we reported yesterday, Budapest transport staff also eyes ‘record’ hike. The Budapest public transport company BKV will use a total 10.5 billion forints (EUR 28.4m) to raise the wages of some 10,000 employees next year, economic daily Világgazdaság said on Tuesday.
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The paper said that the move would increase basic wages by an average 15 percent, noting that the last hike of a similar range had been made in 2017. The city management is also planning to spend another 15 billion forints to  give a 15 percent payrise to nearly 18,000 employees of the city’s municipally owned companies under a 3-year agreement with unions to adjust wages in line with changes to the minimum wage, the paper said.
Source: MTI
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