The president’s privatization drive Javier Milei It was stopped in Congress – at least until now – and of the 11 state companies that it intended to privatize in the text of the Base Law, they were reduced to eight by decision of the legislators: AYSA, Argentine Energy (formerly ENARSA), Intercargo, Road Corridors, Belgrano Cargas, Argentine Trains, Río Turbio Coal Deposit and Nuclear. These last two, although they can incorporate private capital, must retain a majority shareholding of the State. The following were left out of the norm: Argentine Mail, Argentine Airlinesand Radio and Television Argentina (RTA)which controls Public TV and National Radio.
The Mail is among the 10 organizations or societies under the orbit of the National Public Administration (APN) which together concentrate, 283,000 employeesmore than half of the million people who make up the total staff in the APN. The other state-owned company that appears in this lot is Argentine TrainsThe rest of the agencies belong to the areas of Defense, Security, Economy (including the Federal Public Revenue Administration), and the Judiciary.
Among those 10 organizations and companies They employ 55% of the 513,517 people who work in the Public Administrationincluding centralized and decentralized administration and other state entities and companies. In short, they involve the State $368,832 million per month in salaries. This arises from a request for Access to Public Information made by Infobae to the Office of the Chief of Ministers, with data as of last April.
The ranking of public agencies with the largest number of personnel is led by Armywith 61,276 members. They follow the National Gendarmeriewith 39,349; the Federal policewith 31,569; and the Navywith 25,592 effective. Then they appear Argentine Trainsthe trade name of the Railway Operating Company SE (SOFSE)with 23,624 employees; the AFIPwith 21,660; the Prefecturewith 21,485; he Judicial Councilwhich includes magistrates and officials and employees of the National and federal justicewith 20,482; and the Mailwith 16.364 employees.
More of 12,000 APN employees earn a higher salary than the Presidentwhich today is $4,066,018. These monthly income range from this amount to $24 millionas emerged from the analysis of the data carried out by Infobae.
4,969 AFIP employees, 3,200 from the national and federal judiciary, 1,005 members of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 739 from the National Public Defense Office, 528 from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, 479 from the Supreme Court, 217 from Nucleoeléctrica Argentina, which operates the country’s nuclear power plants, 132 from Aerolíneas Argentinas, 124 from AYSA, and 98 from the National Insurance Superintendency (SSN) have incomes above that amount.
Together, they imply a total of monthly salaries of $69,723 million. He 97% are permanent employees (11,655), and the rest (407) are temporary, including 12 hired.
Of those 12,062 employees and officials with salaries higher than that of the president, almost a thousand (905) earn more than $10 million per month in a basic fixed amount, that is, without additional. These positions include the highest hierarchies such as directors or undersecretaries.
The Highest salaries above $10 million are found in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, since many of its members are paid in dollars or euros as they are assigned abroad. There are 555 salaries, for a total of 2,716 officials, diplomats and employees of the Foreign Ministry, ranging from $18 to $23 million, gross.
There’s others 261 federal and national judicial officials, and seven Supreme Court officials who also receive remunerations that exceed $10 million. The Judicial Council – as administrator of the resources of the national and federal Justice, with the exception of the Supreme Court – pays 20,482 salaries of employees, officials and magistrates. The five lowest average $500,000. Above that value, all of them exceed $800,000.
In the salary ranking, the following appears: Navywith 26 members of the General Staff of this force with incomes above $10 million, out of a total staff of 25,592 troops.
It is followed by the AFIPwith 21 positions with salaries that exceed that figure. The fiscal agency employs 21,660 people and salaries start at $900,000 per month. The salary of the employees – who are among the best paid in the State – is made up of a basic salary, which is around 20-30% of what they earn in the month, and 70-80% based on the collection.
With salaries exceeding $10 million, the following also appears: Public Ministry of Defense of the Nation, where there are 19 officials with salaries higher than that figure, out of a total of 3,022 people. 9 other people in the National Tax Court They charge above that figure, for a plant of 247 people.
There are two other positions with incomes of more than $10 million in ARSAT, two in Integración Energética Argentina SA (IEASA), one in AYSA, one in Nucleoeléctrica Argentina and one in Aerolíneas Argentinas.
97% of this group (882) are permanent plants and only 23 cases are temporary plants. There are no employees within this universe of employees.
Data processing and visualization: Daniela Czibener
Loading and checking: Desiré Santander
