In accordance with recommendations made by the Finance Committee and decisions taken by Council in December 2019, certain financial benefits impacting salaries and stipends have been adjusted with effect from 1 January 2020.
Annual adjustments are the following:
- A 0.80% increase to the scale of basic salaries paid to Staff Members and the scale of stipends paid to Fellows (Annexes R A 5 and R A 6 of the Staff Regulations).
- A 0.40% increase to subsistence allowances (2020 subsistence rates), family, child and infant allowances (Annex R A 3 of the Staff Regulations) and to payment ceilings of education fees* (Annex R A 4 of the Staff Regulations) following the movement of the Geneva consumer price index.
- Related adjustments will be implemented wherever applicable to associated members of the personnel (Annex R A 7 of the Staff Regulations).
The amended text of the Staff Regulations will be available shortly on the Web at: CERN Staff Rules and Regulations.
*The new payment ceilings are applicable to academic year 2019/2020.