The benefits of state employees consist of a series of wage, social and social security benefits enjoyed by those employed in the public administration. In the eyes of other workers, these advantages often make the civil servant a privileged one. If you want to better understand what we are talking about, all you have to do is continue reading.
Government Employees: Who They Are
First, we clarify all those who need to understand precisely who are state employees.
For state employees it means all employees in public administration being directly owned by the state and not local authorities, and such as ministries, schools, barracks, or universities. The carabinieri, for example, as well as the fireman or the policeman, is a civil servant.
The advantages of state employees: what they are
Working as a government employee can be advantageous over other types of employment for various reasons. You enjoy not only benefits related to your salary but also facilitation in accessing credit, thanks for example to the assignment of the fifth for state employees.
More specifically, the main advantages enjoyed by a state are:
- Annual salary: the civil servant has an average salary that is around € 36,000 gross per year, therefore slightly higher than that of the private employee, which slightly exceeds € 33,000 per year
- Paid overtime: the overtime of state employees is paid, while for private employees, the monetization or not of overtime depends on the contract with the individual company.
- Social benefits: scholarships for professional training or the education of children, home assistance for non-self-sufficient people, support for studying abroad.
- Economic and social security benefits: bonuses depending on the managerial position held and the possibility, for some categories of workers, to retire early.
Facilitated access to credit
Among the advantages enjoyed by state employees, there is also the possibility of accessing credit in a facilitated manner.
The INPS itself makes small annual and biennial loans available to them up to double the monthly contribution salary.
In addition to these annual and biennial loans to the state, the possibility of accessing the salary-backed loan is reserved. This is a loan whose installment cannot exceed one-fifth of the net monthly salary. It is also the employer who withholds the installment and pays it to the paying agency. In the case of state employees, withholding and reimbursement are carried out through the Noipa system, which manages the remuneration of state employees.
