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All Ghanaian government employees now receive base pay increases of 23%. After this raise, let's examine the 2024 pay scale for all GES employees, including teachers.
The increase will be operative as of January 20, 2024. In July 2024, this base wage will rise once more to 25%.
How to Calculate Your New Base Pay
The 23% increment is being calculated on the base pay. The base salary of newly employed GES teachers is ¢3,100.34.
Your new base pay will be ¢3,100.34 plus 23% = ¢3,100.34 + 713.0782 = ¢3813.42.
That is, gross pay = base pay + retention premium. But the retention premium will be 15% of the new base pay (¢3813.42).
Retention premium = ¢3813.42 × 15% = ¢572.013
Hence, new gross pay = new base pay + new retention premium = 3813.42 + 572.013 = 4385.433.
Therefore, your new gross pay will be 4385.433, effective January 2024.
Download the full 2024 salary structure of GES teachers and staff here.
This comes after the government of Ghana granted a 23% salary increment to workers in Ghana. This increment takes effect in January 2024.
The agreement was made on November 14, 2023, between the Government of Ghana, represented by the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission (FWSC), the Ministry of Employment and Labour Relations (MELR), and the Ministry of Finance (MoF), and organized labor, comprising workers unions, associations, and institutions within the Public Service of Ghana (hereinafter called "labor") of the other part.
The following discussions regarding the Base Pay for the 2024 Single Spine Salary Structure have been completed by both sides.
1. From January to June 2024, there will be a 23% overall rise in Base Pay for the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS).
2. The Base Pay would be readjusted to 25% between July 2024 and December 2024.
Labor advocated base pay increases of 45 percent, which would improve incomes overall.
According to TUC Deputy Secretary-General Joshua Ansah, labor is requesting in the current negotiations what they believe to be a just rise.
"We expect something better for labor and the government itself as a result of the negotiations, and I don't want to talk about a percentage. We had thirty percent last year, and we hope that thirty percent will improve this year.
