Rio de Janeiro will face a wave of public servant retirements in the coming years, worsening the trend of spending more on inactive personnel than on active employees. The conclusion comes from a study produced by RioAgora in partnership with República.org. The state has 420,442 personnel positions, but only 42.6% are active servants. Most are already off the payroll: 159,629 are retired (38.0%) and 81,822 are pensioners (19.5%). For every 100 active servants, the state already supports approximately 135 inactive ones.
The servants currently working in the state are between 40 and 50 years old, one or two decades away from retirement. Nearly 42% of the workforce is in a career stage approaching eligibility for paid leave in the next cycles. This means the active servant workforce should decrease significantly in the coming years.
The more servants retire, the smaller the budget space will be for holding public service exams, staff replacement, and salary adjustments. The study warns that the state will need to prepare for this demographic transition of the payroll. Economist Guilherme Cézar Coelho was mentioned as a source of the study.
