Egypt to raise salaries for all university faculty, details due next week

Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly met Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk and Higher Education Minister Abdelaziz Konsowa on Wednesday to review proposals to raise the pay of academic staff at Egypt’s public universities, and agreed on salary increases covering all faculty members.

The details will be announced at a joint press conference with the two ministers on Monday 16 November, according to a cabinet statement. The rises come on top of incentives for academic staff announced last week.

The meeting followed instructions issued by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi at the Egypt Forum 2026 to improve the incomes of university teaching staff and their assistants. Konsowa is also acting minister of culture.

Madbouly said investing in people was the state’s top priority and called the improvement of academic pay a key part of developing higher education and research. He directed the two ministries to form a joint working group to follow up on implementing the agreed measures.

The statement did not give the size or cost of the increases.