New MINAM salary scale: salaries from S/ 3,200 to S/ 9,100

The Ministry of the Environment (MINAM) has, as of today, a new income scale for its personnel subject to the labor regime of Legislative Decree No. 728. The measure was officialized through Supreme Decree No. 249-2026-EF, published in the official newspaper El Peruano on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, in the Legal Norms section, with the endorsement of the Minister of Economy and Finance, Elmer Rafael Cuba Bustinza, and the signature of President Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi at the Government House on November 9, 2026.

The regulation is issued in compliance with the Thirty-Ninth Final Complementary Provision of Law No. 32513, the Public Sector Budget Law for Fiscal Year 2026, which tasked the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) with conducting technical studies on the income of MINAM personnel and establishing the new scale within a maximum period of ninety business days. That provision also ordered that the scale consolidate the monthly income obtained through collective bargaining under Law No. 31188.

Approved levels

The scale, contained in Article 1 of the supreme decree, establishes the following monthly amounts by occupational group and level:

Professional 3: S/ 9,100.00
Professional 2: S/ 7,800.00
Professional 1: S/ 6,600.00
Technician 2: S/ 5,100.00
Technician 1: S/ 4,400.00
Assistant 1: S/ 3,200.00

The text specifies that these amounts consolidate the monthly income already registered in the Computer Application for the Centralized Registry of Payrolls and Human Resources Data of the Public Sector (AIRHSP), including those granted through collective bargaining. Likewise, the sole final complementary provision stipulates that references to the categories Professional 3, Professional 2, Professional 1, Technician 3, Technician 2, Technician 1, Assistant 2, and Assistant 1 of Supreme Decree No. 298-2012-EF shall be understood as referring to the new remunerative levels.

Only three additional concepts

Article 2 limits the recognitions from MINAM to the servers of the 728 regime to the approved scale and three concepts: a bonus for National Holidays, a Christmas bonus, and a schooling bonus. The highest administrative authority of the sector is obliged to verify the strict compliance of this rule under responsibility.

In parallel, Article 3 prohibits the perception of any other income, bonus, allowance, incentive, or economic compensation, “regardless of its form, modality, periodicity, and source of financing,” above the amount of the scale. The prohibition allows three exceptions:

The Compensation for Time of Service (CTS).
The Family Allowance.
Concepts granted subsequently within the framework of collective bargaining regulated by Law No. 31188.

No additional cost and repeal

Article 5 establishes that the scale is fully funded by the institutional budget of the MINAM budget entity, without requesting additional resources from the Public Treasury. Article 4 charges the General Directorate of Fiscal Management of Human Resources of the MEF with updating the amounts in the AIRHSP ex officio, while the sole complementary repealing provision nullifies Supreme Decree No. 298-2012-EF, which approved the previous remunerative scale for environmental personnel under regime 728.

The file was supported by Official Letter No. D000142-2026-MINAM-DM, through which MINAM submitted the project to the MEF, and Report No. 3413-2026-EF/53.04, which issued a favorable opinion. In the same edition of the bulletin, Supreme Decree No. 248-2026-EF was published, authorizing a transfer of funds of S/ 289,795.00 in favor of the Secretariat of National Security and Defense (SEDENA).

The decree arrives with a double effect for readers: it organizes personnel spending in the environmental sector by consolidating all concepts into a single table and, by closing the door to parallel payments, makes MINAM one of the first budget entities to apply the mandate of Law No. 32513 on remunerative transparency, without additional fiscal cost.

Source: El Peruano, November 10, 2026, Legal Norms section (Economy and Finance), p. 14 (official reference: 2573253-2).