Egypt Agrees to Raise Salaries for All Public University Faculty Members—Full Details Set for Monday, November 16
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The Arab Post
- . November 12, 2026
- . Update: November 12, 2026 11:52 am
The Egyptian government has officially approved a huge financial project to help the Egyptian academic community. Egypt Approves Faculty Salary Increase Plan, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly held a meeting with some of the members of his cabinet on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026, to finalize a much-anticipated Egypt university faculty salary increase.
At the high level meeting, the Prime Minister, together with his Ministers of Finance, Ahmed Kouchouk, and Higher Education, Abdelaziz Konsowa, discussed and accepted detailed plans for the permanent increase of the basic salary of academic staff.
The new financial package is for all the faculty members and teaching assistants working in the public universities in the country, and will be “bigger and more comprehensive,” according to an official statement by the cabinet. Exactly how much and for how long this will cost will be officially announced at a joint ministerial press conference on Monday, November 16.
Urgent Government Decision: 1,000 EGP Monthly Raise for University Professors
Fulfilling Presidential Directives for Higher Education – Egypt Approves Faculty Salary Increase Plan
Egypt’s sweeping measure to raise the salaries of public university teachers comes shortly after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gave orders to public universities on the matter. The President, in the recent period, made intensive efforts to ensure that the financial situation of the University teaching staff and assistants is improved, while the President asked the State institutions to do the same.The President in the recent Egypt Forum 2026 very strongly asked the State institutions to put a higher focus on improving the financial situation of the University teaching staff and assistants.
Prime Minister Madbouly highlighted that investment in the country’s human resources continues to be the government’s priority No.1, after the meeting. Madbouly university pay raise was a stepping stone towards modernizing the higher education and advanced scientific research sectors of the country, he said.
To guarantee prompt work, the Prime Minister decided to establish, on an executive level, a Joint working group between the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, immediately. This special committee is responsible for putting the agreed financial measures into practice in the current state budget in a smooth manner.
Building Upon Recent Quality Incentive Allowances
The pending pay raise for professors is the second big financial hit for Egypt’s academics in the month. The government only recently gave a separate decree for substantial hikes in monthly “quality incentive” allowances.
That was the earlier decree that offered financial aid that was immediate to all academic levels, according to the State Information Service (SIS). In the past, the professors were entitled to a monthly raise of EGP 1,500, associate professors were entitled to a monthly raise of EGP 1,250, whereas lecturers were entitled to a raise of EGP 1,000 per month.
The announcement on Wednesday is, however, a more sweeping, permanent reshaping of the public university faculty salaries Egypt, not just an extra incentive. The cabinet statement didn’t immediately reveal the exact amount of the newly imposed hikes, but the experts monitoring the economy at Daily News Egypt say the hikes are compounding “a massive effort on the part of the state to hold on to the best academic talent.
There’s no denying that this is the top story in Egypt higher education news, though, as the academic world eagerly awaits a press conference on Monday. The Egyptian government is not just offering incentives to teachers to take on the roles they are expected to play in its future workforce, but also base salary increases.
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