In September, Pere Aragonès announced that he was renouncing his salary as ex-president to take over the family's hotel chain. At that time, he also explained that he would combine this task with his doctoral thesis at the University of Barcelona and also with teaching at the University of Vic.

Just over a year after losing the presidency of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès is giving up his former president's salary to work for the family business. Back in May, in an interview in the ARAThe former president stated that he had plans for his future that did not involve politics. He ruled out practicing law—he has a law degree—and has finally opted for the family business, a hotel chain based in Pineda de Mar, Golden Hotels. He will combine this with his doctoral thesis, which he resumed at the University of Barcelona a few months ago, and with teaching at the University of Vic, where he will teach economic history. Aragonés will not receive the annual allowance he earned as former president—approximately €108,000—but will retain the office he had set up in the North Pavilion of the Palau de Pedralbes in Barcelona.