Only nine of his close team earn 185,320 pesos a month.
Only among 389 trusted directors or managers who earn more than 100 thousand pesos per month, Infonavit spends around 60 million pesos each month. Of these, 102 have just entered the management of Romero Oropeza.
According to the Infonavit template updated as of October 30, 2025, the number of trusted positions reached 4,945 in 2025.
Among the new officials are well-known names from the previous six-year term at Pemex: Marcos Manuel Herrería Alamina, former director of Administration in Exploration and Production, now general secretary of Infonavit.
Jorge Luis Basaldúa Ramos, from director of Industrial Transformation to deputy general director of Credit.
Also Carlos Fernando Cortez González, former director of Budget and Accounting at Pemex Fertilizers and today director of Finance and Inspection at Infonavit; Gabriela Susunaga went from comptroller of Pemex to comptroller of the Institute; and Frida Palacios García, from coordinator of Financial Operations at Pemex to deputy director of Human Resources at Infonavit.
Two relevant characters are Gustavo Álvarez Velázquez, former director of the failed Gas Bienestar program, who will now have the organization’s Portfolio Management in his hands, and has a salary of 185 thousand pesos per month.
The other case is that of Javier Núñez López, deputy operational director of Pemex, identified as one of the main people responsible for the financial mismanagement and debt with suppliers of the oil company, and is now the Planning Director of Infonavit.
All of them were discharged between October and November 2024, after their departure from Pemex.
The non-unionized personnel report reveals that 389 Infonavit employees earn more than 100 thousand pesos per month, of which 102 earned in the last year.
Romero Oropeza receives a base salary of 185,825 pesos per month, which places him at the top of the structure. Just below are his relatives from Tabasco: Herrería and Basaldúa, with 185,302 pesos each.
Today, President Claudia Sheinbaum has a gross monthly salary of 191 thousand pesos.
Romero Oropeza, an agronomist from Tabasco and friend of AMLO, promoted accelerated growth in the positions of trust, which contrasts with the austerity policy that the federal government claims to maintain.