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The Council of Ministers has approved this Wednesday at the proposal of the Minister of the Presidency Economy and Enterprise Jordi Gallardo the Decree fixing the minimum interprofessional wage for the year 2022. Thus and following the line set throughout the legislature the Executive has decided to increase the minimum inter-professional hourly wage by 3.2 in relation to the current minimum wage and place it at 6.68 euros hour from 1 January 2022. The new salary increase means a monthly salary of 1157.87 euros for next year.The decision as explained by Minister Gallardo responds to the desire to continue to take steps to achieve the goal of gradually equating the minimum wage to the real cost of living and with the desire to move forward on the recommendation of the Council of Europe to place the minimum wage at 60 of the average wage.The head of the Presidency Economy and Business recalled that this decree is included in the package of measures promoted by the Government with the Bill of measures for the protection and flexibility of the housing rental market of the essential conditions of the affordable housing and improved purchasing power. Gallardo recalled that this series of measures also includes an increase from January 2022 of up to 3.2 of the pensions of the Andorran Social Security Fund CASS that have a gross amount lower than the minimum interprofessional wage.
