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Civil Servants’ Old Age Pension Scheme

Beamtenversorgung

1 Information presented in this table refers to the regulations for civil servants at federal level. Regulations for civil servants at state and municipal level can differ and fall within the jurisdiction of the Länder. Furthermore, there exist special provisions for civil servants working in outsourced legal entities, such as the Austrian Federal Railway, the postal services or the universities. 

2 Excluded are employees in the public service employed by civil contract as ’Vertragsbedienstete’. Please note that nowadays especially teachers are mostly employed as ’Vertragsbedienstete’; the number of civil servants in Austria is decreasing.

Legal Basis: Pension Act (Pensionsgesetz 1965); Salaries Act (Gehaltsgesetz 1965); Civil Servants‘ Act (Beamten-Dienstrechtsgesetz 1979); Act on Judges'and Prosecutors' Service Law (Richter- und Staatsanwaltschaftsdienstgesetz); General Pension Act (Allgemeines Pensionsgesetz); General Social Security Act (Allgemeines Sozialversicherungsgesetz); Income Tax Act (Einkommensteuergesetz 1988).