▲ The members of the judicial administration body will have the mission of executing an austerity plan, focused on transparency.Photo The day
Iván Evair Saldaña and Gustavo Castillo
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, September 4, 2025, p. 5
The new ministers of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) initiated functions with a lower salary than their predecessors and barely below the constitutional ceiling, set in the salary of the person holding of the Presidency of the Republic.
According to information from the Court Internet portal, Minister President Hugo Aguilar Ortiz will receive 137 thousand 582.27 monthly net pesos and 191 thousand 656.76 gross pesos. His predecessors received more than 206 thousand net pesos per month.
With the cut, the perceptions of the togados were only 189 pesos below the gross salary of President Claudia Sheinbaum, although they are higher in net terms. According to the Internet page of the Anti -Corruption and Good Government Secretariat, the president wins 191 thousand 846 gross pesos and 133 thousand 332.97 net pesos per month.
Minister Lenia Batres Guadarrama is the only one that receives less, with 128 thousand 992 pesos, since since her arrival at the Court in 2024 returns part of her income to the treasury so as not to overcome the salary that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador then had. In addition, he resigned from benefits such as the food card, the insurance for major medical expenses and other benefits.
Together with Aguilar and Batres, five more ministers have made public their salary in the same terms: Loretta Ortiz Ahlf, Yasmín Esquivel Mossa, Giovanni Azael Figueroa Mejía, Sara Irene Herrerías Guerra and María Estela Ríos González. It is expected that Irving Espinosa Betanzo and Aristides Rodrigo Guerrero García are also known.
On September 1, in his first message as president of the Supreme Court, Aguilar Ortiz announced that he will propose to the Judicial Administration Body (OAJ) a austerity plan focused on transparency and the fight against corruption, with the aim of achieving an honest and unpreticed judiciary.
He explained that he will request that all the judges elected in the last electoral process perceive less than the president of the Republic, in accordance with article 127 of the Constitution, which will allow an initial savings of 300 million pesos per year. In addition, judgments of judicial officials who currently earn more than the president will be followed up, in order to adjust their remuneration.
With these actions, approximate total savings of 800 million pesos are projected a year. Additionally, the remuneration of the ministers in retirement will be reviewed, who currently receive between 205 thousand and 385 thousand pesos per month, well above the president’s salary, and with that adjustment, guarantee compliance with the Constitution.
