He strong adjustment in public administration It is one of the main flags of Javier Milei. In just 18 months of management, state employment was reduced in about 63,000 positionsaccording to the latest report of the Employment, Distribution and Labor Institutions (mayor) of the IIEP-UBA. But the tourniquet is not explained only by layoffs: the Salary liquefaction It also pushes thousands of workers to abandon the sector on their own.
Without going any further, this week there were two weight renunciations in the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC). One of them responds, exclusively, to salary issues: that of Georgina GiglioDirector of Consumer Price Indices. The official decided to leave the agency to join the Provincial Directorate of Statistics of Buenos Aires. Giglio was considered a picture Key techniciansince under its orbit was the measurement of inflation, a central indicator of the economy and the focus of public debate for more than a year, in the middle of the postponed Methodological update to more accurately reflect the evolution of prices.
However, public wages fell 27% real In the case of Level D grade 0 -Historically one of the most numerous within INDEC, according to the measurement of the State Workers Association (ATE). Although the loss in the case of workers in hierarchical places, such as addresses, are even more pronounced.
This is explained by a salary component called “Executive Function” that has been frozen since April 2024 and generates a fall in greater purchasing power. In the case of Giglio this component was from 60% of the salarywhile the another 40% was updated based on state peerswhich are also stopped and, as mentioned before, they have run 27% from behind to the inflation of the libertarian administration.
The “Executive Function” lost 30% real since April, since it was charged based on a component called “Remote unit value” that continued to update, but the amount of that component froze in the salaries of the managers. The value of the remuneration unit for the executive function in April 2024 was $ 647.41 while this component for agreement salaries to June 2025 was updated to $ 847.77.
It should be noted that this real 30% drop is not counting inflation. Therefore, union sources stressed that “Currently, managers begin to resemble other classmates of lower rank”.
A situation similar to INDEC’s occurs in other agencies of the State, where technical cadres begin to leave through the way they saw their salaries reduce.
PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT: THE CONICET CASE
In recent weeks all were attentive to the streaming of CONICETwhich showed live and direct the different species he found on the Marplatean coast. This agency had a reduction of 1,085 workers between November 2023 and June 2025. of that number 894 They are positions of personnel under agreement, administrative SINEP and charges CIC-CPA and 191 are Scholarships. However, union sources warned that the decline in jobs will be greater in two months, since there are about 500 scholarships that overlap for an extension.
The destruction of jobs is not only given by dismissals and removal of scholarships – which is a frequent mechanism in the CONICET – but also via resignations for loss of purchasing power. For 2024, the guild counted 235 workers Less for salary reasons and, as they specified to this medium, it is expected that in 2025 the resignations will increase.
Salaries do not find a floor, in CONICETaccording to their own statistics, the real fall reached the 35.9% So far from the libertarian administration. Although unlike INDEC, there is no fall in management jobs, yes the human resources that reach this body are highly qualified.
From CEPA, they added that to May the Argentine mail Heads the list of companies that had the lowest with 4.916 layoffs They follow the Railway iswith 2,801 sessions, and Nation Bank, with 1,831 layoffs, while Aerolineas Argentinas record 1,768 disconnects.
Although, in proportional terms, the most drastic cut was given in the extélam, where they said goodbye to about 80% of the staff. It follows ENARSA PATAGONIA (-66.7%), and then the cases of Educate SA (-52.5%) and Public content is (-42.7%), which also have especially significant reductions.
In the field of National Public Administration (APN), including decentralized and decentralized organisms, the most significant case in absolute terms is that of ARK, with 3,052 Deleted jobs. They follow the ANSES, with 1,457 dismissals, and the CONICET, with a reduction of 1,091 workers.
Source: Ambito
