More than the president
According to the 2024 Budget, 134.8 million pesos will be allocated from the treasury in bonuses and bonuses for 682 “senior” public servants, from the president, the 628 federal legislators, the 10 acting ministers and the commissioners of autonomous organizations in the process of extinction.
The bonus that President Claudia Sheinbaum will receive this December will be the proportional part of the three months she has been in office, which she assumed on October 1st.
The president will receive 93,072 pesos for the corresponding period from October to December. Next year, for the 12 months worked, you will be entitled to your full bonus, of 387,402 pesos.
That figure will be the product of the sum of two bags: 105,328 pesos of bonus, plus 282,074 pesos of year-end bonus.
However, 32 public servants far exceed the amount of presidential benefits at the end of the year and exceed half a million pesos if their bonuses are also added.
In the public sector, the amount of the bonus varies depending on the institution and level of government, although the rule is 40 days of salary. This contrasts with the private sector where, by law, this benefit is provided for the equivalent of a minimum of 15 days.
The specialist in labor and electoral law, Miguel Amaya, explains that bonuses in autonomous organizations and the Judiciary have been established in accordance with the law, but also according to internal agreements. Hence the amounts may be greater than 40 days.
“The bonus for bureaucrats, as established by law and constitutional mandate, must be 40 days. The law also states this, but it is a jurisprudential criterion, the bonus must be free of encumbrances, that is, 40 days of gross salary without deducting taxes,” he points out.
“In the Judicial Branch, the bonus for ministers, circuit magistrates or electoral magistrates, the bonus is based on their gross salary, but also in internal guidelines they establish additional days, as many as they want, since they have the budgetary autonomy to decide it.”
Miguel Amaya, specialist in labor and electoral law.
On November 5, President Claudia Sheinbaum published a decree that establishes the provisions for the granting of the 2024 bonus, so that it is governed by the principles of “justice and equity”, and is consistent with the “republican austerity” of the Executive Federal.
It applies to the agencies and entities of the Federal Public Administration, although it indicates that the Legislative and Judicial powers, as well as the federal autonomous entities, “may take as a basis the provisions of this decree” for the payment of the bonus, without prejudice to the exercise of their autonomy.
“That the granting of the bonus must be consistent with the principles of republican austerity that have been established in the administration of the Federal Executive,” the decree states.
