2011年，政府担心突尼斯和埃及的状况 — — 长期独裁统治被推翻蔓延到阿尔及利亚，对公共部门员工示威蔓延的反应是提高100%的薪水，这在2008年算得上逆潮流而动。
In 2011, the government, fearing contagion from Tunisia and Egypt, where long-established dictatorships had just been toppled, responded to the spread of protests by public-sector workers by raising their salaries by 100% – retroactively to 2008.