Prague, Sept 12 (CTK) – The salaries in the Czech public sector will rise by 4 percent as of November according to the Labour Code, and doctors and nurses’ pay by 10 percent as of January after the government approved the respective decrees yesterday, PM Bohuslav Sobotka has said on Twitter.
Besides, the employees of ministries and other state offices, the Science Academy (AV), the Czech Social Security Authority and the Agriculture and Food Inspection Authority will also see their pay increased.
Employees of state-subsidised organisations, such as museums, galleries, libraries and some theatres, are paid from the state budget as well.
The pay rise will demand 157.6 million crowns from the state budget this year and 946 million next year.
The sum does not include the September 6-percent rise in teachers’ salaries and the 4-percent rise in the salaries of other school employees, which would cost 2.5 billion crowns.
The pay rise will also burden the regional and municipal budgets with additional almost two billion crowns this and next years.
Some 3.2 billion crowns should be released from the public health insurance for the health personnel’s pay rise.
The centre-left government earmarked money for these measures in July when it approved an increase in the volume of finances for salaries by 5 percent.
The number of civil servants increased by 5,800 to 422,445 people last year. Regions, towns and villages fund salaries of some 151,000 civil servants and 78,000 employees receive wages from health insurance.
The civil servants’ pay rose year-on-year by 1,012 crowns on average and their average monthly salary was 26,892 crown.
The national average in the second quarter of this year was 27,297 crowns.
($1=23.975 crowns)
