Brussels grants 18.5 million to municipalities for salaries and soft mobility

The Government of the Brussels-Capital Region published two decrees in the Belgian Official Gazette on August 28, 2026, granting nearly 18.6 million euros to Brussels’ local authorities. The first, dated November 20, 2025, allocates €9,578,022.29 to municipalities to partially finance the salary scale revaluation for Level C employees for the 2025 financial year (p. 47149). The second, dated July 2, 2026, grants €9,000,000 to municipalities and Public Social Welfare Centres (CPAS) to promote soft mobility for their staff for the 2026 financial year (p. 47152).

A salary scale revaluation resulting from the sectoral agreement

The subsidy of €9,578,022.29, referenced [C − 2026/006279], is charged to basic allocation 40.041.01.07.43.21 of budget item 40.041.08 of the Region’s general expenditure budget for the year 2025. It is intended for municipalities which, in execution of the 2007/2008 sectoral agreement, increased the salary scales for Level C personnel by 3% starting January 1, 2009.

This agreement provides for a 3% revaluation of the scales, with 1% financed by local authorities and 2% through regional intervention. The subsidy covers the period from January 1 to December 31, 2025, and is paid in two installments into the bank account of each beneficiary municipality.

The beneficiaries of this subsidy are:

• the municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region;
• the CPAS and associations formed in accordance with Chapter XII of the organic law of July 8, 1976, on Public Social Welfare Centres;
• public hospitals whose deficits are covered by the municipalities;
• the Mont-de-Piété located within their territory.

Nine million for staff soft mobility

The second decree, referenced [C − 2026/005915], grants €9,000,000 to Brussels municipalities and CPAS for the 2026 financial year, charged to basic allocation 40.041.01.09.4322 of budget item 40.041.08. It falls within the framework of protocol 2016/01 concluded within Committee C of the Brussels-Capital Region on March 8, 2016.

The subsidy relates to the period from January 1 to December 31, 2026, and is intended to:

• pay pedestrian and bicycle allowances to municipality and CPAS employees to cover home-to-work commutes;
• cover the cost of acquiring STIB subscriptions by municipalities and CPAS;
• allow employees to carry out their mission-related travel.

The amounts granted to each local administration, mentioned in the annex of the decree, were calculated based on a pro rata distribution of the total amount granted for the “2024 soft mobility” bonus, applied to an amount of €9,000,000.

Direct support for local finances

These two decrees, published in the Moniteur belge of August 28, 2026 (196th year, No. 193), reflect the Region’s desire to provide financial support to Brussels municipalities and CPAS (Public Social Welfare Centres). The first reduces the wage burden associated with the revaluation of level C salary scales, while the second encourages soft mobility for staff, in line with employee valuation and sustainable mobility policies.

For municipal employees and Brussels CPAS, these subsidies have a direct impact: they guarantee partial funding for the salary scale revaluation and concretely fund bicycle and pedestrian allowances as well as STIB subscriptions. The precise amounts per municipality are listed in the annexes of the two decrees published in the Moniteur belge.

Official source: Moniteur belge of August 28, 2026 (196th year, No. 193), decrees of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region of November 20, 2025 [C − 2026/006279] and July 2, 2026 [C − 2026/005915], p. 47149 and 47152.