Page 5 - IDEA Studie 5 2018 Vyssi platy ucitelu

Study 5 / 2018 Higher Teachers’ Salaries: Promises, Promises, Promises2 JUNE 2018 DANIEL MÜNICH, VLADIMÍR SMOLKA Summary International comparisons show that Czech teachers’ pay, in relation to other tertiary educated workers, has long been among the lowest across the most economically developed countries. Based on the latest international comparisons published, from 2015, Czech teachers earned 56% of what other tertiary educated workers were earning, whereas the average across OECD countries was 83%. By the end of 2017 the level of average teachers’ salaries, including those in managerial positions, improved only very slightly in comparison to average salaries across the national economy, reaching mere 112%. The relative level of teachers’ salaries measured against other tertiary educated workers, which is a better indicator of how financially attractive the profession is, also improved only minimally during 2017. The gap between the average teacher’s salary and other tertiary educated workers in the public sector in fact widened further during 2017 to 21.8%. The share of tertiary educated workers in the private and public sectors with higher salaries than the mean teacher’s salary has effectively not changed, there has only been a slight worsening or improvement for certain age groups of teachers. Teachers’ salaries are, when compared with the salaries of other tertiary educated workers in the public sector, egalitarian. The mean and median share of performance-related component in the salary is noticeably lower among teachers 2 We are grateful to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic for their permission to use the ISPV data, which is collected and managed by the company TREXIMA spol. s r. o. We would also like to thank Karel Gargulák, Filip Pertold (IDEA) and Vladimír Hulík (MŠMT) for their useful comments on a working version of this study. Any ambiguities or mistakes that may remain are the authors’, as are the views expressed and claims made in the study. The study was produced as part of and with the support of the Czech Academy of Sciences’ AV21 Strategy and is based on research carried out within Czech Science Foundation project GA ČR P402/12/G130. 3