• Decree-Law No. 29-A/2026, of 30 January (PDF, 164KB) – Amends the value of the remuneration base and updates the remuneration amounts in the Public Administration ^new
• Ordinance No. 51-B/2026/1, of 30 January (PDF, 59KB) – Sets the updated meal allowance for Public Administration workers ^new
• Decree-Law No. 1/2025, of 16 January (PDF, 603KB) – Amends the remuneration base and updates remuneration and per diem amounts in the Public Administration
• Decree-Law No. 13/2024, of 10 January (PDF, 1MB) – Approves measures to enhance the value of Public Administration workers
• Decree-Law No. 108/2023, of 22 November (PDF, 390KB) – Approves measures to enhance the value of workers performing public functions
• Decree-Law No. 75/2023, of 29 August (PDF, 281KB) – Establishes a special measure to accelerate career development for workers with a public employment relationship
• Decree-Law No. 26-B/2023, of 18 April (PDF 927KB) – Promotes an interim salary update for Public Administration remuneration
• Decree-Law No. 84-F/2022, of 16 December (PDF, 3MB) – Approves measures to enhance the value of workers performing public functions
• Decree-Law No. 51/2022, of 26 July (PDF, 321KB) – Approves measures to enhance the remuneration of workers performing public functions
• Regulatory Decree No. 2/2022, of 7 July(PDF, 454KB) – Regulates the extraordinary pension update provided for in the 2022 State Budget Law
• Order No. 5327/2018, of 29 May(PDF, 295KB) – Application of the career unfreezing process, progressions and promotions
• FAQ – DGAEP (PDF, 136KB)  – NWithin the scope of the career unfreezing process regulated by Article 18 of the 2018 State Budget Law – dated 05.01.2018
• Law No. 80/2017, of 18 August (PDF, 165KB) – Interprets paragraph 7 of Article 113 of Law No. 12-A/2008, of 27 February (PDF, 285KB) which establishes the regimes of employment relationships, career structures and remuneration for workers performing public functions
• Order No. 3746/2017, of 4 May (PDF, 231KB) – Career unfreezing
• Ordinance No. 150/2017, of 3 May (PDF, 193KB) – Establishes the procedures for assessing situations to be submitted to the extraordinary regularisation programme for precarious employment in the Public Administration and the State business sector
• Decree-Law No. 254-B/2015, of 31 December (PDF, 195KB) – Reinstates the rules for updating pension values under the general Social Security scheme and the convergent social protection scheme, and sets the reference value of the Solidarity Supplement for the Elderly, effective from 1 January 2016
• Law No. 159-A/2015, of 30 December (PDF, 156KB) – Extinction of the remuneration reduction in the Public Administration
• Law No. 159-B/2015, of 30 December (PDF, 156KB) – Extinction of the extraordinary solidarity contribution
• Law No. 159-D/2015, of 30 December(PDF, 159KB) – Extinction of the surtax on personal income tax
• Decree-Law No. 25/2015, of 6 February (PDF, 199KB) – Specifies the obligations or specific conditions that may justify the granting of remuneration supplements to workers covered by the General Labour Law for Public Functions, as well as the manner of their integration into the Single Supplement Table
• Law No. 75/2014, of September(PDF, 176KB) – Establishes the mechanisms for temporary remuneration reductions and the conditions for their reversal
• Order No. 696/2014, of 15 January (PDF, 189KB) – Rectoral order on hiring, contract renewals and recruitment procedures at the University of Lisbon
• Law No. 66/2012, of 31 December (PDF, 1.58MB) – Introduces amendments to several laws and determines the application of the holiday regime and the Student-Worker Statute, provided for in the Labour Code, to workers performing public functions, and revokes Decree-Law No. 335/77, of 13 August, and Decree-Law No. 190/99, of 5 June
• Ordinance No. 1553-C/2008, of 31 December (PDF, 32KB) – Approves the single remuneration table for workers performing public functions
• Ordinance No. 1553-D/2008, of 31 December (PDF, 132KB) – Conducts the annual review of per diem tables, meal and travel allowances, as well as remuneration supplements for workers performing public functions
• Decree-Law No. 408/1989, of 18 November (PDF, 179KB) – Defines the remuneration framework for university teaching staff, polytechnic teaching staff and scientific research personnel.

Salary Tables

• Salary Tables (XLSX, 41KB)  ^{updated February/2026}   
• Public Administration Remuneration System 2026 (DGAEP)  ^{updated february/2026}

Withholding Tax Tables

• Order No. 233-A/2026, of 6 January (PDF, 37KB) – Approves the withholding tax tables on employment income and pensions earned by residents in mainland Portugal, applicable during 2026 ^new

Senior Management Staff

• Law No. 128/2015, of 3 September(PDF, 233KB) –  Sixth amendment to Law No. 2/2004, of 15 January, which approves the statute of senior management staff of services and bodies of the central, regional and local administration of the State, and first amendment to Law No. 64/2011, of 22 December, which modifies recruitment, selection and appointment procedures for top management positions in the Public Administration
• Law No. 64/2011, of 22 December (PDF, 264KB) – Modifies recruitment, selection and appointment procedures for top management positions in the Public Administration, introducing amendments to Law No. 2/2004, of 15 January, and Law No. 4/2004, of 15 January, which establishes the principles and rules governing the organisation of the direct administration of the State
• Order No. 7534/2011, of 23 May (PDF, 32.7KB) – Update of mandatory training for senior management staff
• Ordinance No. 146/2011, of 7 April (PDF, 200KB) – Defines and regulates the courses whose successful completion is required for the exercise of top and intermediate management positions or equivalent roles in central Public Administration services and bodies
• Decree-Law No. 51/2005, of 30 August  (PDF, 174KB) – Rules for appointments to senior management positions
• Decree-Law No. 2/2004, of 15 January(PDF, 129KB) – Statute of senior management staff
• Law No. 64/93, of 26 August(PDF, 252KB) – Establishes the legal regime of incompatibilities and impediments for holders of political office and senior public positions
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Mobility & Requalification

The General Labour Law for Public Functions (LTFP) reserves Chapter III of Title IV for worker mobility (Articles 92 to 99 of the LTFP).

• Remuneration in mobility (informative flyer- DGAEP)
• Ordinance No. 48/2014, of 26 February (PDF, 123KB) – Regulates the terms and procedures of the prior recruitment process for workers in a requalification situation, provided for in Article 24 of Law No. 80/2013, of 28 November
• Law No. 80/2013, of 28 November (PDF, 220KB) – Establishes the legal regime for the requalification of workers performing public functions, aiming at better allocation of human resources in the Public Administration
• Order No. 16107/2012, of 19 December (PDF, 194KB) – Transfer of competences from ESPAP to INA
• Ordinance No. 182/2011, of 5 May  (PDF, 212KB) – Establishes the terms for the instruction and processing of requests for placement in special mobility, by voluntary option, and for the granting of extraordinary leave
• Decree-Law No. 269/2009, of 30 September (PDF, 204KB) – Duration of mobility
• Law No. 11/2008, of 20 February (PDF, 212KB) – First amendment to Law No. 53/2006, of 7 December, extending the special mobility regime to workers with individual employment contracts

Professional Training

• Rectification Statement No. 16/2021, of 14 May (PDF, 205KB) – Rectifies Decree-Law No. 19/2021, of 15 March, which amends the model of education and training in the Public Administration, creates the National Institute of Administration, I.P. (INA, I.P.), and extinguishes the Directorate-General for the Qualification of Workers in Public Functions
• Decree-Law No. 19/2021, of 15 March(PDF, 1MB) – Amends the model of education and training in the Public Administration, creates the National Institute of Administration, I.P. (INA, I.P.), and extinguishes the Directorate-General for the Qualification of Workers in Public Functions
• Order No. 347/2020, of 10 January (PDF, 531KB) – Approves the Regulation on Attendance of the Advanced Skills Programme for Workers Performing Public Functions
• Ordinance No. 231/2019, of 23 July (PDF, 901KB) – Regulates the Advanced Skills Programme for Workers Performing Public Functions (CAT)
• Decree-Law No. 86-A/2016, of 29 December (PDF, 193KB) – Defines the professional training regime in the Public Administration