Tool to calculate salary increases

 

The Government has launched a web application so that citizens and employers can easily find out the increase that must be applied to private sector wages for this 2023, according to the executive in a statement. This tool has been published following the approval yesterday by the General Council of the Law on urgent measures to improve the purchasing power of citizens and in the

matter of housing leases. Thus, the new application, designed in calculator format so that it is intuitive, allows the increase to be calculated based on the gross monthly or annual salary. Once the salary currently received has been specified in the calculator, before the application

of the new law, the application shows as a result the

corresponding percentage increase and the new mandatory wage to be charged. This has been decided because, as stated in the legal text, all employers in the private sector are obliged to increase, at least, the salary of workers who receive a gross fixed salary which, calculated annually and per working day ordinary legal salary, whether it is less than or equal to 48,000 euros. The increase takes effect from January 1, 2023 and must be done following a specific formula, which is easily included in the new application provided by the Government.

The executive reminds that the obligation to increase the salary is not applicable in the event that workers have been hired from January 1, 2022. Nor is it applicable to workers who are already has increased the salary by the percentage of 7.1%, based on the update of the minimum interprofessional salary for the year 2023. Also, in the case that the fixed salary of working people has increased by on the CPI of Andorra for the year 2021 (3.3%) during 2022, the additional increase applied during this year must be deducted from the obligation that must be applied according to the calculation defined by the calculator .