Nearly 120 thousand public servant will receive a 10% pay raise.

The new law regarding the salary system of public servants was published today in the Official Monitor.

The raise will take place in two stages. Those working in the education system will have bigger salaries starting September 1 2017, while those working in the field of culture, art, health, social welfare, research, armed forces and law enforcement from January 1 2018.

For this, the state budget has allocated almost 337 million lei.