Algeria’s 2027 budget delivers the last tranche of Tebboune's salary-doubling pledge

Algeria is paying out next year the last 53% of the wage increases President Abdelmadjid Tebboune promised in March 2024, when he said the country had raised salaries by around 47% and the rest would double salaries by 2026-27. The raises — which were approved as part of Algeria’s 2027 state budget — start next year and will be paid in one or two installments. The government is also holding off on introducing any new taxes that would hit middle- and low-income households, according to the Algeria Press Service.

The raises are the last tranche of that pledge and are not an annual adjustment. Earlier rounds came in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Tebboune repeated the commitment at a Saturday meeting with the press.

ALSO- The Laghouat-El Meniaa-In Salah-Tamanrasset sections of the country’s railway is being set as a top priority, with Tebboune ordering the immediate start of work on the section and setting the end of 2028 as the deadline for the completion of the full line. The African Development Bank (AfDB), which partly funds the project, approved USD 878 mn in financing for the 230-kilometer Ghardaïa–El Meniaa section of the Trans-Saharan corridor from Algiers to Tamanrasset.