This is how the diet rule was agreed in the Brandenburg state parliament

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Diet increase: This is how the MPs regulate their salaries themselves

Brandenburg state parliament, here at a ceremony for the late former Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev in September 2022.

Members’ salaries, also known as allowances, are adjusted every year. Unless those elected voluntarily renounce. That was the case in 2021 and 2022 and was considered a good signal because many people in the country ultimately had to do without in the crisis. This is how automation works.

Potsdam. MPs don’t like to talk about diets – the state parliament in Brandenburg is probably no different from other parliaments. This is mainly due to the fact that parliamentarians decide for themselves how high their monthly salaries are. No ordinary employee has such a privilege.

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The compensation will be adjusted according to the development of employee remuneration in Brandenburg. This means that the Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office reports the percentage change in the income development to be determined by September 1 of each year to the state parliament. The data of the past year in comparison to the previous year are decisive. The level of the basic diet is then determined from this. The sum for the compensation for material costs is adjusted to the percentage change in the consumer price index in the state of Brandenburg.

Anyone who is a member of parliament and at the same time has income from another official relationship or a job in the public sector will have their compensation reduced by 75 percent. This applies, for example, to Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke and Finance Minister Katrin Lange (both SPD), who are also MPs. You only get a quarter of the diets.

What are the allowances for special functions?

The president and the two vice-presidents, the parliamentary group leaders and the parliamentary directors receive what is known as an official allowance by law.