Prague, Oct 26 (CTK) – The wages of Czech elementary and secondary school teachers exceeded the country’s average wage in all regions except for Prague in 2014, but they stood deep below the average wage of civil servants with university education, according to statistical figures.
The average gross monthly pay of elementary and secondary school teachers was 28,027 and 28,890 crowns last year, respectively, according to data released by the ministries of education and labour.
The average gross monthly wage in the Czech Republic, irrespective of the employee’s education, was 25,686 crowns in 2014.
Although a crushing majority of teachers are university graduates, their average wage lagged far behind the average wage of university graduates among civil servants, which was 34,613 crowns.
The situation is specific in Prague, where teachers’ wages even lag behind the average wage of all employees (33,347 crowns).
The average wage of university graduates among civil servants in Prague was 39,830 crowns, which is about 10,000 crowns more than the average wage of teachers.
In the remaining 13 regions, the average wage of civil servants with university education exceeded 30,000 crowns, a limit that teachers’ wages reached nowhere except for Prague, where the average wage of secondary school teachers is 30,176 crowns.
There are no big differences between teachers’ wages in individual regions.
At elementary schools, the teachers’ average wage was the lowest in the Hradec Kralove Region (east Bohemia) and the Zlin Region (south Moravia), 27,280 and 27,298 crowns respectively, and the highest in Central Bohemia, 28,746 crowns.
Almost 116,000 teachers work at elementary and secondary schools in the Czech Republic, according to the statistics.
($1=24.450 crowns)
