MINIMUM SALARIES UP TO TSHS. 310,777/= WITH EFFECT FROM 1st JULY, 2015 IN TANZANIA !!!

[Since the time  [1995] this amount was being claimed by TRADE UNIONS  in Tanzania,  it has now become peanuts.] After all,  the Tsh.  has drastically fallen.   

By Samuel Kamndaya,The Citizen Reporter, Tanzania.

Posted  Tuesday, May 19  2015 at  13:32

IN SUMMARY

·         The govt has been increasing minimum salary from Sh65,000 in 2005 to Sh265,000 in 2014/15

·         According to minister of State in the President’s Office, responsible for Public Service Management, the government will increase the minimum salary by 13.5 per cent in the 2015/2016 budget which starts on July 1, 2015

 

Dodoma. 

 Low income earners who work in government will smile all the way to the bank come July 2015 as the government increases the minimum salary by 13.5 per cent, a cabinet minister said here yesterday.

The Minister of State in the President’s Office, responsible for Public Service Management, Ms Celina Kombani, said in Parliament yesterday that the government will increase the minimum salary by 13.5 per cent in the 2015/2016 budget which starts on July 1, 2015.

Earlier, requesting the Parliament to endorse a total of Sh587.3 billion for the State House and various commissions, secretariats and institutions that fall under the President’s Office for the financial year 2015/2016, Ms Kombani said the Jakaya Kikwete administration has managed to increase the minimum salary from Sh65,000 in 2005 to Sh265,000 in 2014/2015.

Thus, a 13.5 per cent increase translates into some Sh35,775 more to bring the total amount to be paid to a minimum wage earner to Sh310,777.  The amount, she said, was agreed upon after discussions with the Trade Union Congress of Tanzania.

Meanwhile, the government will focus much of its attention on developing agro-processing industries during the next five years as it seeks to put Tanzania on the right footing to attain a middle-income country status come 2025.

It will also put emphasis on industries that seek to process livestock and fisheries products, the Minister of State in the President’s Office responsible for Social Relations and Coordination, Dr Mary Nagu told the Parliament here yesterday.

In preparation for its second Five-Year Development Plan (FYDP), which will run between financial years 2016/2017 – 2020/2021, Tanzania will also focus on key metal industries as well as those that make use of soda ash and coal energy sources.

“We will also develop industries that make use of natural gas and oil….the government will go into it so that the Second Five-Year Development Plan can give hope to Tanzanians in the aspects of poverty and unemployment….it will be a plan that promotes inclusive growth of the economy,” Dr Nagu said while presenting the budget estimates for the Planning Commission for the 2015/2016 financial year.

This will be the second series of three FYDPs that are implemented with the framework of the country’s Development Vision 2025 which envisions the creation of a Tanzania that will have graduated into a middle income status by the year 2025.

The first FYDP was launched during the 2011/2012 financial year and runs through fiscal year 2015/2016. The goal had a target of increasing the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to eight per cent.