The deputies of the Parliament of the Canary Islands have updated their income by means of a 9.83% increase in their base salary, the first since 2018. This is a pay increase that is completed with increases of more than 40% (in a range from 24% to 117%) when it comes to attendance allowances or supplements received by members of the Board and spokespersons of the parliamentary groups.
This increase in salaries, allowances and supplements was agreed at a meeting of the Parliament's Board held on July 9, but the Chamber, which has become known from its publication in the Official Gazette of the Parliament on July 17.
According to the published data, the President of the Parliament, Astrid Pérez, will receive almost 17% more per month in salary and supplements: from about 6,700 euros gross per month to just over 7,800 euros, not counting attendance allowances, which in her case exceeded 2,000 euros per month before the increase.
With the new salary tables, Astrid Pérez goes from receiving twelve payments of 3,975.05 euros, two extra payments of 3,107.35 and the presidential supplement of 2,239.63 euros (80,791 euros per year) to fourteen payments of 4,054 euros and a supplement of 3,133.67 (94,360.04 euros per year), 16.80% more.
In the case of the other four members of the board and the spokespersons and presidents of the parliamentary groups, their income goes from about 5,400 euros gross per month to almost 6,200, an increase of 13.86%, to which will be added the allowances, which before their update have provided them with an average of about 1,400 euros per month in the first eleven months of the legislature.
The salaries of the deputies without additional charge go from twelve payments of 3,975.09 and two extras of 1,987.54 (51,576 euros per year) to fourteen payments of 4,054 (56,756 euros), an increase of 9.83% and to which are added the attendance allowances (officially called "compensations").
Income from allowances also increases
The allowances are a relevant part of the parliamentarians' income and are above 800 euros per month on average per deputy in the first eleven months of the legislature.
But there is a great variability, because the income from allowances ranges from the 2,292 euros of monthly average that the president of the Parliament received from July 2023 to May 2024 or the 2,268 of the spokesperson of Agrupación Herreña Independiente, Raúl Acosta, to the 400 that the less assiduous deputies receive. Astrid Pérez and Raúl Acosta are the only ones who have received on average more than 2,000 euros per month in allowances with the old tables.
There are other twelve deputies signed up to the regime of "exclusive dedication" that exceed one thousand euros per month: Mario Cabrera (1,595 euros on average), José Miguel Barragán (1,513), Gustavo Matos (1,482), Ana Oramas (1,446), Patricia Hernández (1,375), Luz Reverón (1,311), Nicasio Galván (1,297), Luis Campos (1,286), Melodie Mendoza (1,222), Casimiro Curbelo (1,202), Sebastián Franquis (1,125) and Jesús Ramos Chinea (1,120).
The allowances that are charged depend on the attendance to the Parliament, the "exclusive dedication" and the island of residence of the deputy. It is foreseeable that with the agreed increase more deputies will reach the thousand euros in allowances from the next session, since they are the source of income that has increased the most in percentage terms.
A rank-and-file deputy from Tenerife attached to the "exclusive dedication" without positions on the Board or in the parliamentary group received until now 60 euros as "compensation" for attending Parliament, which is now increased to 100 euros, 67%. In the case of the deputies from Gran Canaria, who previously had a specific allowance for that island, they go from 83 euros to 180, which represents a 117% increase. For their part, the deputies from the peripheral islands go from an allowance of 113 euros to another of 180, an increase of 59%.
The spokespersons and presidents of the parliamentary groups and the vice-presidents and secretaries of the Parliament's Board have their own allowances: if they are from Tenerife they go from 90 to 120 euros (33% more), if they are from Gran Canaria from 130 to 215 (65% more) and if they are from the other islands from 160 to 215 (34% more).
The president of the Parliament has a specific allowance or compensation that has gone from 180 euros to 255, an increase of 42%. The monthly supplements for deputies with positions on the Parliament's Board or in the parliamentary groups have also increased with a relevant percentage, 39.92%.
Thus, the supplement of the president goes from 2,239 euros to 3,133.67; that of the spokespersons, presidents of parliamentary groups and other members of the Parliament's Board from 1,048.12 to 1,466.50; and those of the deputy spokespersons from 524.05 to 733.25.
