Uruguay
Montevideo City Hall Allocated $9.4 Million in Compensation for Management Targets in 2025
According to data from the 2025 Accountability Report processed by National Party councilor Eric Spektor, the city government paid $390 million in special payments to employees. The criticism focuses on the fact that several of the targets were easy to meet.
Montevideo City Hall paid about $390 million in 2025, equivalent to $9.4 million, in special compensation for employees for meeting management commitments, according to data from the Accountability Report processed by National Party councilor Eric Spektor and published by El País.
According to that report, the payments are settled every four months and depend on the degree of compliance with objectives defined by the authorities of each area with the participation of employees. Spektor questioned whether several of those targets were easy to achieve and told El País that this amounts to paying an extra amount for objectives he does not consider extraordinary.
Among the examples mentioned by that outlet are, in the Culture department, the monthly cleaning of storm drains on the Planetarium roof, the holding of an activity for Children’s Day at the Crece complex in Flor de Maroñas, and the monthly sending of data from the Museum of Art History to an observatory. In Human Management and Material Resources, one of the goals of the Occupational Health and Safety Service was to carry out at least one communication about a new online medical certification system. In Mobility, the preparation of a report on works carried out by the Roads Division in 2024 was included.
Still according to El País, the department that allocated the most resources to this item was Culture, with $76.2 million. It was followed by General Secretariat with $49.6 million, Human Management and Material Resources with $39.8 million, Social Development with $38.54 million, Environmental Development with $35.8 million, Urban Development with $31.5 million and Mobility with $20.6 million. Payments were also recorded in Sustainable and Smart Development, Planning, Economic Development, Financial Resources and General Accounting. In total, the municipalities added up to $53 million.
The compensation had a value in 2025 of $26,995 in January and $27,921 in May and September, according to a response from the city hall to a request for information from Spektor cited by El País. The payment is not always made in full: if the compliance coefficient is below 70%, it is not paid; if it is between 70% and 94%, it is calculated proportionally; and if it reaches 95% or more, it is paid in full.
That coefficient is made up, according to the published information, of 70% sectoral performance, 20% individual performance and 10% institutional or overall performance.
On the other hand, the director of Human Management and Material Resources, Gustavo Pérez, stated before the Departmental Board, according to El País, that the Central Audit Office reviews management commitments every year. He also noted that that body was transferred from Human Management to the General Secretariat by decision of Mayor Mario Bergara.
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