Overview
- An agreement announced Wednesday between the Generalitat, unions and employers commits €150 million a year from 2026 to 2029 to lift pay for about 120,000 social‑care workers.
- The new financing model uses a salary indicator based on each provider’s average pay and signed raise commitments, and higher public tariffs go only to providers that raise wages.
- For eldercare providers, indicators below €19,600 limit funding to inflation, €19,600–€21,000 trigger a 6.38% rise, and above €21,000 yield an 8.34% increase, with the model available retroactively from January 2026.
- The government projects a step‑up in eldercare pay if firms meet targets, from €19,600 to €21,000 in 2026, €22,500 in 2027, €23,500 in 2028 and €24,500 in 2029.
- Low and uneven pay set the stage for this move, with average wages at €18,402, a 42% gap in eldercare between public and subcontracted staff, and 17 separate labor agreements that the government plans to align under a common framework with a monitoring commission.