Salary increase of 50% will enter the exclusionperiod by the end of the month
The Minister of Finance, Mohamed Yousr Barnieh, issued the executive instructions for Decree No. 67 granting a general increase of 50% on salaries and lump sum wages to employees in ministries, departments, public institutions, companies, public sector establishments and other administrative units.
The Ministry explained in a statement published on its official IDs that the executive instructions of Decree "68" regarding qualitative increases will be issued successively.
The Executive Instructions stipulated that the increase will be calculated based on the salary or monthly lump sum wage effective on December 31, 2025, and includes various categories of civil workers, including celebrities, daily wage, temporary workers, and those working on employment contracts, as stipulated in the first and second articles of the Instructions.
Disbursement of the increase at the end of this month
Article 8 of the instructions specifies that the planned increase will be paid with the salaries of the last week of May 2026, which means that employees will receive their salaries, including the increase, starting from the end of this month.
The Executive Instructions confirmed that all compensation granted to employees in accordance with the laws and regulations in force will remain calculated on the basis of wages in force on March 17, 2026, i.e. before the implementation of the new increase.
She explained that the increase of 50% does not include compensation, but rather the latter remains calculated on the old salary, which aims to control the mass of expenditure and prevent further inflation in the compensation items.
Methods of financing the increase
Article 7 of the Executive Instructions specifies the mechanism for securing the financial expenditure resulting from the implementation of the decree, through two tracks, the first, which is the public entities of an administrative nature, and the increase is disbursed from the allocated appropriations for 2026, and in the event that the full amounts allocated for salaries and wages are exhausted, the entity has the right to request additional appropriations from the Ministry of Finance.
The second track is represented by the economic public sector entities and public construction companies, where the increase is financed from the savings of the estimated budgets for 2026 for each entity separately, without imposing additional burdens directly on the treasury.
Decree 67 was issued on March 19 as part of a series of legislative decrees issued by President Ahmed al-Sharaa aimed at improving the living conditions of Syrians, and according to the text of the decree, the increase was supposed to be disbursed at the beginning of this month, but this was not done without mentioning the Ministry of Finance for any explanation or justification for this.