Will they really gain less than Sheinbaum?
However, in real terms the ministers will continue to perceive more than Sheinbaum, since the net monthly salary of the president is 133,332 pesos, while theirs will be 137,582 pesos. It should be noted that before this adjustment the ministers earned around 206,000 net pesos.
“133,000 pesos per month,” said President Sheinbaum on August 13 when asked about her net income, and confirmed that the gross salary is just over 191,000 pesos.
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The difference persists due to the high performance that the ministers still receive. Thus, although Sheinbaum’s gross salary is greater, his net income is less. The president of the Court has indicated that austerity programs and cuts in salaries and benefits will be applied, so this gap could be closed in the near future.
It should be noted that Minister Lenia Batres Guadarrama, close to the postulates of Morena, is currently the member of the Court who wins the least. Since his arrival in 2024 he announced that he would return a part of his salary to the Treasury to receive less than the then President López Obrador and now that President Claudia Sheinbaum. Its monthly income is 128,992 pesos.
President Claudia Sheinbaum held at her Mañanera conference that the ministers of the Supreme Court finally reduce her salary, after years of resist despite the pressure of López Obrador. He pointed out that this adjustment reflects a new stage in the Judiciary, after the judicial reform and the election of judges and magistrates last June.
Well above the minimum wage and average income in the IMSS
However, the wages of the president and the ministers remain far superior to that of the rest of the population. Based on your net income, Sheinbaum receives about 4,444 pesos a day and ministers 4,586 pesos.
In contrast, a IMSS worker Receive on average 628 pesos per day, that is, 18,864 pesos per month. And the minimum wage in force in 2025 It is 278.80 pesos a day, equivalent to 8,364 pesos per month.
The conclusions
The salary adjustment in court represents a symbolic advance in austerity and brand distance with the resistance that López Obrador faced during his six -year period. However, the change does not yet solve the background debate: the gap between the salaries of the judicial elite and those of the majority of the Mexican population.
While a minister perceives in one day what a worker with minimum wage obtains in more than two weeks, the perception of privilege persists. The challenge for the Judiciary will be to demonstrate that the salary reduction is not only a political gesture, but the beginning of an institutional redesign that brings the Court to the standards of equality and social trust demanded by citizenship.
