Annual adjustment of pay and pensions for 2006

• Pursuant to Annex XI to the Staff Regulations ("the Method"), the Council has adopted the Commission proposal adjusting salaries and pensions, backdated to 1 July 2006 .
  
  The adjustment to pay and pensions in Belgium and Luxembourg is +2.3%. For other places of employment, the adjustment will vary depending on the simultaneous effects of weightings and exchange rates.
  
  Under Article 3(6) of Annex XI to the Staff Regulations, if adjustment necessitates the recovery of sums overpaid, such recovery may be spread over a period of not more than 12 months.
   
• The Staff Regulations also provide for increasing, with effect from 1 January 2007, the special levy by 0.43 (from 3.36% to 3.79%).
   
• The pension contributions rate has not changed (10.25%).

As every year, an updated version of the pay calculator is available at:

• Pay

The weightings table can be consulted at:

• Correction coefficients

The salary scales can be consulted as follows:

• Officials/temporary staff
   
• Auxiliary staff
   
• Contract staff

Please address any specific questions not covered by the above to the contact person shown on your salary statement.