Veterans Housing: How good is it to be a civil servant in Israel?

Worth working in the public sector - the average salary is NIS 17,000, significantly higher than the average salary of employees in the private market.

However, the level of wages is the small problem: according to sources in the Ministry of Finance, the compensation according to seniority and not according to performance is what makes it difficult to recruit quality manpower for the civil service.

Between Ashkenazi

25/04/2022

Monday, 25 April 2022, 16:02 Updated: 20:41

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The person in charge of wages at the Ministry of Finance, Kobi Bar-Natan, publishes the report on wage expenditures in the public sector and in government ministries.

This year, too, the report does not mention the names or even the positions of the highest paid, but the salary tables attached to the report show that the highest paid are the directors of government ministries and other public workplaces, whose monthly salary

is about 50,000 shekels.

There are security guards for public facilities, with an average salary of about NIS 8,000 per month

, and the legal advisers of government ministries and other public workplaces also receive a salary close to that of CEOs.

Immediately after them appear employed people with a personal contract with about NIS 40,000 per month.

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Cyber ​​- the most rewarding field in the civil service, perhaps because of the high alternative wages in the private market (Photo: ShutterStock)

There is nothing like the cyber wing

The report also reveals that it is worth working at the government cyber headquarters, since its employees receive a salary of about NIS 33,000 per month, those who wonder at the cyber headquarters have 47 jobs. 252 workers are employed.

And what about the other sectors in the public sector? According to the report, social workers earn about NIS 15,000 a month, but a warning note should be added to this figure since there are quite a few social workers who work part-time.

Another interesting statistic reveals that the average salary of doctors, young and old alike (not including income from private medicine of senior doctors who also work as self-employed) amounts to about NIS 25,000 per month.

The average salary of lawyers in the public service amounts to about NIS 22,000 per month.

The commissioner's big challenge is the discussion of employment agreements in the public sector, the 'framework agreements' that are expected to be on the table of the finance ministry immediately after the Histadrut elections, at the end of next month.

Treasury officials knew how to tell Walla that the question that needs to be asked is not just what wage increases public sector workers will receive but how the public sector will adapt to the modern market.

Kobi Bar Natan, in charge of wages and employment agreements at the Ministry of Finance (Photo: official website, no)

Private market employees can be jealous

what does it mean?

Not to be outdone, sources in the Treasury say that the public sector is rewarded by seniority and not necessarily by performance.

Or as they put it: "The method rewards those who have not acquired an education, so if we want to compete in the private sector and attract more skilled workers we are in a problematic place because we are not rewarded by performance."

Another interesting statistic that emerges

from reading the report shows that the average salary in the public sector in general, and in government ministries in particular, is higher than in the private sector.

In addition, wages in the public and government sectors have been rising faster than in the private sector in the last two decades.

However, the wage structure in the civil service is uniform and biased. Enough space.

: "The report data provides a glimpse into the existing challenges in the existing incentive structure of state employees that make it difficult to recruit skilled and outstanding workers. We will continue to work to make the necessary changes in collective agreements."

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