The new collective agreement for hourly paid personnel in the municipal sector in 2025–2028
Pay increases match the general level, and the pay programme continues.
Trade Union JHL and Local Government and County Employers KT have made reforms in the pay system of the collective agreement for hourly paid personnel in the municipal sector (TTES) in good cooperation, tells Bargaining Specialist Karita Alanko.
– I’m satisfied with the end result. We are now in a good position for the next bargaining round and for planning the future from the perspective of a potential new technical sector collective agreement, Alanko says.
The collective agreement provisions on pay were revised also in other ways besides the pay increases.
Upper limits of basic hourly wages of different pay groups were removed because they were considered unnecessary. The lowest levels of the pay groups were removed as well. The new agreement acknowledges the duties of multi-skilled employees and combined duties, and texts were updated in the agreement’s pay appendices.
Pay increases of hourly paid personnel in the municipal sector are on the general level
Pay increases of hourly paid personnel in the municipal sector in 2025–2028
- 1 October 2025: a €0.37/hour across-the-board increase, at least 2.50%
- 1 August 2026: a 2.27% across-the-board increase
- 1 October 2026: two increases: a 0.2% allowance for locally agreed increases (“paikallinen järjestelyerä” in Finnish), and a 0.4% development allowance for locally agreed pay programme pay increases (“paikallinen kehittämiserä”)
- 1 April 2027: three increases: a 2.0% across-the-board increase, a 0.4% allowance for locally agreed pay increases, and a 0.4% development allowance for locally agreed pay programme pay increases
- 1 February 2028: a 1.0% development allowance for pay programme pay increases
The agreement period is two months shorter than for example that of the technology industry, and therefore the total sum of pay increases looks slightly smaller. However, when the duration of the agreement period is considered in the calculation, the pay increase per month is at the same level as in the industrial sectors. In other words, the pay increases follow the general level.
The agreement’s pay increases in 2027 are tied to the agreements of the technology industry. If the collective agreement of the technology industry employees is terminated before the third year and the collective agreement pay increases of these employees change, the pay increases of this agreement will change as well. This would not affect those pay increases that are part of the pay programme.