The Government of Formosa projected that the salaries of public employees and provincial pensions will accumulate a 29% increase during 2026. The announcement was made by Gildo Insfrán on August 7, during the celebration of San Cayetano. Adrián Muracciole, economist and rector of the Universidad Provincial de Laguna Blanca, presented the measure as one of the largest adjustments granted so far by provincial administrations.
Muracciole stated that only three jurisdictions had exceeded the accumulated 20% and that the rest remained below that threshold. That comparison belongs to his evaluation and was not accompanied by a table province by province. The university official placed the Formosan wage policy within a strategy aimed at sustaining the income of active employees and retirees despite the drop in available resources.
The economist attributed the fiscal restriction to two national factors: a reduction of more than 10% in the revenue sharing received by the jurisdictions and the drop in provincial collection associated with the recession. For Formosa, he calculated an accumulated loss of more than 586.808 billion Argentine pesos since the assumption of Javier Milei and added a national social security debt of over 350 billion Argentine pesos. He also estimated a real decline of 12.1% in provincial revenues.
On that basis, Muracciole stated that the annual increase of 29% would be at least four points above the inflation of 2026. He recalled that in 2025 the Province granted a readjustment of 55%, compared to an annual inflation of 31.5%, thus projecting two consecutive years of real recovery. For those receiving the minimum net income and for minimum pensions, he estimated that this year's increase will exceed 36%.
The pension contrast occupied another axis of his presentation. Muracciole noted that half of the provinces transferred their funds to the ANSES and compared the national minimum pension of 489,755.93 pesos with the current 820,000 pesos and the projected 984,000 for October in the Caja de Previsión Social de Formosa. He attributed the difference to the 82% indexed-benefit guarantee and stated that only four provinces apply that percentage, while Formosa does so universally.
The rector also defended the continuity of incentives and connectivity for teachers after the national cut, and set the starting salary for the sector at around 1,300,000 pesos. In response to critical union members, he linked the discussion to 72,000 national public layoffs, more than 220,000 lost jobs, and an 8% unemployment rate, figures he presented as a result of federal policy. The final comparison will be subject to annual inflation and the fulfillment of salary and pension projections by October.
