(Business in Cameroon) – Cameroon’s Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reform, Joseph Le, told Parliament on March 29 that the country’s new automated payroll system, Aigles, has identified 294,498 government workers eligible for promotions since its launch on January 1, 2025. He was responding to a question from ruling party MP Kum John Nji about the system’s impact on state workforce management.
According to the minister, 198,223 of these employees have already received their promotions, with salary adjustments reflected immediately in their pay. “If Aigles detects a promotion backlog, the corresponding salary increase is applied to the next paycheck,” he explained.
To illustrate the system’s effectiveness, Le cited an example of 22 workers who had been stuck at the same pay level for 22 years due to administrative delays. “Can you imagine waiting 22 years for a promotion?” he asked. One of these employees saw their salary jump from CFA247,000 in December 2024 to CFA374,500 in January 2025.
The Aigles system was first introduced in Parliament in December 2024 as part of a broader effort to modernize Cameroon’s public payroll management. “With Aigles, we wanted to make a drastic change,” Le recalled. Now, every month, once salaries are processed, all public employees receive an SMS or another notification confirming their exact paycheck amount.
Beyond promotions, Aigles also helps clean up payroll records by identifying errors and stopping undue payments. The minister pointed out that some officials had continued receiving allowances tied to roles they no longer held. “Aigles now automatically removes these anomalies, so no one gets benefits they’re not entitled to,” he said.
Meanwhile, 450,000 civil servants have seen salary increases as the system corrected previous errors and factored in overdue allowances and promotions.
Initially scheduled for early 2024, the launch of Aigles was delayed but is now fully operational. According to Le, the system— which merges the previous Antilope (payroll management) and Sigipes (career management) applications—has been well received by civil servants.
