The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced on Monday an 8.2% increase in the salaries of teachers in the country, so now no teacher will earn less than 16,000 pesos (909 dollars) per month, which will imply an investment of 42,000 million pesos (2,386 million dollars).
Retroactively, that is, since last January, it will apply an increase to the salary of teachers and teachers and all those who work in the education sector of 8.2% on average ”,
the president specified during his morning press conference.
On the occasion of the commemoration of Teacher’s Day in MexicoLópez Obrador pointed out that from now on no education worker will be able to earn less than 16,000 pesos a month (about 909 dollars), since it is what workers enrolled in social security earn on average.
The president justified that last year, on average, the salaries of workers registered with social security were a little more than 12,000 pesos a month (681 dollars), but now that “the economy is growing” they are “improving salaries ”.
The average number of workers enrolled in social security, which is 22 million workers, the average salary is already 16,000 pesos (909 dollars), so how is it possible for teachers to earn less than that?”
questioned.
He pointed out that this decision will imply that an additional 42,000 million pesos (2,386 million dollars) be allocated to the budget to strengthen public education in Mexico, although he asserted that this “is not an expense, it is an investment.”
López Obrador stressed that so far more than 800,000 education workers have been based.
In Mexico, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), until 2022 there were just over 2.17 million teachers in 255,535 schools in the country.
He National Union of Education Workers (SNTE) and the dissident cell of the National Coordinator of Education Workers (CNTE) They are two of the most powerful trade union organizations in the country.
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