Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has announced the reinstatement of the annual salary increase for public service employees.
Her announcement comes seven years after the removal of the system of annual salary increases by the late John Magufuli in 2016.
She told workers that good things are coming without publicly announcing the increase.
Addressing the nation on International Workers’ Day at Jamhuri Stadium in Morogoro, President Hassan Samia also urged traders not to increase prices in their shops because of salary increases.
“We are resuming annual salary increments, which were initially frozen. We will restart this year and hope to do the same moving forward,” she said.
She added: I thought this year we should return them to all employees, there are salary increases we are preparing, and we will continue as we had been doing in the past.
On May 14, 2022 President Hassan approved the proposed salary increase, including a minimum wage for public servants by 23.3 percent, whereas Sh1.59 trillion was used to pay salaries for the financial year of 2021/22.
The head of state has emphasized that last year the government raised salaries by 23.3 percent, which not everyone benefited from. The goal was to raise the minimum wage and a few others, but a large number did not benefit.
“Including myself, employee number one. But the other thing is that we increased the workers’ allowances, and the beneficiaries of this are the workers with high salaries who did not benefit from the 23.3 percent salary increase. I know there are some institutions that could not pay when we gave the allowances, the budgets had already passed, so the harvest will come this year,” she said.
