The debate about the working conditions of Spanish healthcare personnel is always on the agenda. For years, nurses, doctors and technicians They denounce that salaries in public health have remained practically frozen while the cost of living has skyrocketed. Now, the popularizer Jorge Ángel, known on social networks as Nurse Jorge Ángel, has published what he earns per year as a nurse in the public system.
The professional has broken down his payroll in detail to show the economic reality of his group. With ten years of experience, three three-year periods and level two of a professional career, he claims to earn 2,300 clean euros per month with nights and holidays, which is equivalent to about 27,600 euros annually. To that amount he adds two extra payments of about 3,400 euros and a productivity of 1,700, which brings the total up to 32,700 net euros per year.
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Frozen salaries in a sector with “a lot of responsibility”
The nurse, who works in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU), claims the responsibility assumed by the professionals in his field: “If a patient is intubated, who is going to notify the doctor if something happens to him? The patient who is asleep? No, the male or female nurse. So, of course we have responsibility, a lot of responsibility.”
Although he claims not to complain about his salary compared to other sectors, he regrets the loss of purchasing power accumulated in the last decade: “My partner showed me the payroll from 15 years ago and I earned practically the same. The difference is that now life is ten times more expensive.”
His testimony has revived a recurring debate among Spanish health professionals, who They demand a structural review of remuneration and an improvement in professional career. Besides, the flight of nurses abroadin search of better salaries and working conditions, continues to be a worrying trend.
“It is unfortunate that the people who save our lives earn so little”
The video has generated hundreds of supportive comments from other professionals and citizens who share the perception that healthcare salaries do not reflect the responsibility of the job. “I had to raise my salary much more,” says one user, while another summarizes the general feeling with “you deserve more.” Many stressed that it is “regrettable that the people who save our lives earn so little” or recalled that “salaries have barely risen 2% in twenty years.”
Other participants expanded the debate to the labor structure of the sector and the gap with other countries. “A nurse in Switzerland earns twice as much and can still save,” noted one follower, while several insisted that “in Spain, life has become much more expensive than salaries.” Among the most repeated reactions is the idea of the need for a structural change that gives health workers back the recognition, also economic, that, according to most comments, they lost a long time ago.