At the session of the Government of the Republic of Armenia on March 12, the decision to provide additional remuneration to the employees based on the results of the evaluation of the performance of the state bodies was unanimously adopted, the main purpose of which is to promote the quality and efficiency of the public service.

Deputy Prime Minister reporting the issue Tigran Khachatryan reminded that this pilot program aimed at the modernization of the state administration system was approved last year. The initiative is designed to materially encourage employees who have shown high results, thereby contributing to the maintenance of competitive and professional personnel in the system, the attraction of new specialists and the more effective management of state resources.

According to the data of the Deputy Prime Minister, 3.6 billion drams of additional remuneration fund was already allocated to 15 administrative bodies for the results of the first half of 2025 for the works performed in 57 different directions. Now, summarizing the data of the second half of the same year, a figure close to the maximum possible was recorded. Based on these results, another 4.6 billion drams will be provided for the additional remuneration of employees of state bodies.

Tigran Khachatryan specially emphasized that at this stage it will also be practically checked how the officials who were encouraged in the previous semester fulfilled the mandatory requirement of making financial investments in their education. It is planned that the successful course and analysis of the pilot program will allow to submit a new legislative package to the National Assembly already this year, which will move these public service payment mechanisms to a long-term and legally regulated dimension.

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