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United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Gutres has directed to slash the budget before the 2026 budgetary vote as part of the comprehensive improvement effort through its UN80 initiative.
Most of the belt-stem comes at a time when the Trump administration has seen to save money with the help of Dogi. In March, Guterres warned of cuts to spend in the UN, stating that “the world would be less healthy, less safe and less rich by going with recent funding cuts.” The US has given billions in the last few years, paying one third of its budget, as the top funder of the world body.
However, senior-level United Nations employees have not been hit by organizational belt.
A diplomatic source told Fox News Digital, “Even American people do not see this.” “These people who are appointed for the care of the poor of the world get better allowances than any investment banks.”
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The United Nations and US flags fly outside the United Nations Headquarters before the 78th session of the General Assembly in New York City on September 15, 2023. (Through Angela Weis/AFP Getty Image)
Diplomatic Insider told Fox News Digital that the current “zero-development” budget for 2026 still includes professional and director-direct United Nations employees as well as “many allowances” with assistant-secretaries, under-selectors and general secretary.
Fox News Digital recently reported that Guterres earned $ 418,348, which is a higher base salary than the President Donald Trump Receives And it does not include some of the United Nations heads, including a luxurious manhattan residence and outpost car.
Additionally, although the United Nations documents say that senior -level United Nations employees are going to be “the first thing to be low,” the source says that “in the 2026 budget, no one has been touched.”
Here is a list of allowances:
Salary and multiplier
The United Nations professional employees, including Guterres, are also paid an additional multiplier of their salary based on their post along with general salary. According to data given to Fox News Digital by a United Nations source, the multiplier is to preserve the equivalent purchasing power for all duty stations for “equivalent purchasing power for all duty stations” and can be up to 86.8% in Switzerland.
The United Nations’ salary scale has been determined to compare with equivalently classified jobs in the comparative civil service at Washington, DC, “to attract and maintain employees of all countries, including the compulsory” with compensation 10 to 20% further from the compulsory service, “to attract and maintain employees of all countries.”
General Secretary Antonio Guterres speaks on April 19, 2022 during a press conference at the UN visitors Plaza in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
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Housing allowance and tax exemption
Other expenses including tax payments and housing costs.
The fare of the United Nations employees can be subsidized up to 40% if it is “more than the so -called fare range” depending on the income of an employee.
Several member states exempted United Nations employees from paying taxes, but the organization employees who should pay taxes at their duty station are reimbursed for cost.
Dependent cost
There are adequate benefits for employees with dependents.
Employees receive an allowance of 6% of their net income if their spouses earn less than the general service of the entry level from the United Nations.
Employees who are parents receive a flat allowance of $ 2,929 for children under 18, or who are less than 21 and in secondary schooling. A second child allowance for employees without husband -wife is set to $ 1,025.
United Nations Building in New York City, 23 February, 2023. (Reuters/Mike Seger/File Photo)
United Nations employees may get a grant to cover a portion of education cost for children dependent through secondary education up to four years. The reimbursement is calculated on a sliding scale. In a sample calculation, the United Nations states that it will reimburse $ 34,845 of $ 47,000 tuition.
The boarding fee can also be reimbursed up to $ 5,300 during primary and secondary education.
Pension fund, healthcare
United Nations employees have access to the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, which allows employees to contribute with “23.7%of pensionable remuneration, two-thirds paid by the organization and one-third by staff member. ,
Travel fee
The United Nations pays travel expenses for employees “on the initial appointment, on the change of duty station, when separation from service, for traveling on official business, for home holiday travel, and on a trip to family members.” In some examples, the United Nations also pays eligible life partners and dependent children to travel.
Travel expenses include a “daily subsistence allowance (DSA)” “to cover the average cost of housing and other expenses”. Eligible family members receive half the DSA, while the directors-tier employees and above it receive an additional DSA supplement.
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Difficulty, rehabilitation, mobility and other incentives
For employees who change assignments at some duty stations, the United Nations’ dynamics incentive begins at $ 6,700 and may exceed $ 15,075.
If you change stations lasting more than a year for an assignment, then benefits in profit Inclusion 30-day DSA for employees and half-DSA for eligible families, as well as one month net salary and one month later at assignment duty station. Following expenses may include complete or partial removal and transportation of household items, or storage of those items.
Some duty stations may be given difficulty allowance between $ 5,930 and $ 23,720 for non-local employees. The UN issued an $ 7,500 allowance for employees without the dependents deployed at $ 19,800 allowances with dependents and $ 7,500 allowance “to identify the increased levels of financial and psychological difficulty by involuntary separation.” The risk of $ 1,645 can also be allocated to employees whose association or employment can “clearly,, continuously, and directly target,” or in duty stations, where “there is a high risk of collateral damage in war or active armed conflict.”
Ended employee
Eliminated employees are allowed to pay separate payments, usually several months of salary is formed if their appointment “eradication of the post or lack of employees; poor health or poor health or disability for further service; unsatisfactory service; Agreed end;” Those who have been eliminated for unsatisfactory service or misconduct may receive half a specific separation payment.
A reversion grant can be additionally paid to employees who have been in migrant service for at least five years, until the employees were “abbreviated in a brief dismissal.”
On October 5, 2024, a United Nations armored personnel carrier on patrol near the Lebanon-Israeli border. (Carl Court/Getty Image)
Future cut for senior salary?
In response to questions about the statements of Fox News Digital source, the United Nations employee being equal to an investment banker about compensation, Gutere’s spokesman Stephene Dezerric said the claim was “attractive” and “the United Nations and the United Nations and the Invest Banks demonstrate the ignorance of the world.”
Dujarik did not deny that there is no cut in senior personnel or benefits in the budget proposal of 2026. “The budget proposal for 2026 was prepared before the launch of the UN80 initiative,” he said. “We are currently working on identifying the capabilities including cuts cuts, and a revised proposal will be presented to the General Assembly in a decline for its discussion, which usually occurs between October and December.”
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Dujarik stated that the International Civil Services Commission, an independent group of 15 expert appointments, which creates a system of salary, profit and allowances for the United Nations, “is” comprehensive review of compensation package for international professional and high -ranked employees with results with results for presentation in 2026.
“The general secretary has no right to appoint ICSC decisions or its members,” he said.