Educators or social workers working in the sectors of child protection or assistance to vulnerable people should benefit from April from a salary increase of 183 euros net per month, announced Thursday Matignon. Nearly 140,000 workers are affected. This increase, aligned with that already granted to caregivers during the “Ségur de la Santé”, will cost 540 million euros this year (supported 70% by the State and 30% by the departments), then 720 million in a full year, according to the Prime Minister’s entourage.
Jean Castex will specify these announcements on Friday during a “conference of social and medico-social support professions”. Eight members of the government are due to take part in this event, eagerly awaited by the sector, as well as officials from the Assembly of the Departments of France, communities in charge of numerous prerogatives in the social field.
Very low current wages
The government intends to give a boost to a sector weighed down by significant recruitment difficulties, in particular because of the low level of current salaries, as pointed out by Matignon. Special educators earn only 1,300 euros per month at the start of their career, and the median net salary is displayed at 1,770 euros per month.
The employees concerned are social workers employed by non-profit association structures. They carry out social missions financed by the public authorities, in the field of helping the homeless, the disabled, children in danger or women who are victims of violence, for example.
In addition to the monthly revaluation, 500 million euros per year should be released to finance an overall increase in wages, within the framework of a new single collective agreement for the entire branch, which the social partners are invited to negotiate at the horizon 2024. An additional envelope of 90 million euros in 2022 – i.e. 120 million in a full year -, financed 55% by the State and 45% by the departments, should also be announced for social workers dependent on public service. Nearly 30,000 agents are concerned.