Ministry of Planning Monitoring and Administrative Reform (MPMAR) is preparing a study to raise the minimum wage limit for state civil servants in the fiscal year 2017/ 2018 to LE1,500. An official source with the ministry said that the study recommends an increase in the minimum salary to LE1,500 instead of the current LE1200, to ease the burden on the low-income employees. The proposal will be studied in the next phase with the Finance Ministry and competent ministries to determine the possibility of its application, the source added. The source added that the government has 6.5 million civil servants in the government sector, out of which at least 200 thousand retire every year. He added that the study to increase the minimum wage is an intervention in the framework of reforming the administrative system of the state to help the advancement of the country.

Source: Egypt Independent January 10, 2017 09:47 UTC