Prague, July 27 (CTK) – The salaries of Czech civil servants will rise as from November already, two months earlier than planned, the government decided on Wednesday, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka (Social Democrats, CSSD) has written on Twitter.
He wrote that the volume of money for civil servants’ salaries will be raised by 5 percent, while the base pay will increase by 4 percent.
Sobotka also wrote that the government agreed with raising salaries in education as from September.
The volume of money for the salaries of teachers will be raised by 8 percent. The money for other education employees will go up by 5 percent.
Finance Minister Andrej Babis (ANO) told journalists during Wednesday’s government meeting already that the needed 845 million crowns for higher salaries of civil servants will be found in the state budget.
The needed 2.5 billion crowns for the education sector will come from savings in the service of the state debt, Babis said.
The raising of salaries of civil servants earlier than as from January 1, 2017, as planned originally, has been demanded by the trade unions, which also pushed for an earlier increasing of the salaries in education.
They said the economy is doing well and that is why the rises are possible.
Last year, the salaries of civil servants were raised by 1012 crowns monthly gross to the average of 26,892 crowns compared with 2014.
The average monthly gross pay in the whole economy translated into full-time jobs rose to 26,467 crowns last year according to the data of the Czech Statistical Office in March.
The number of civil servants in the country with a population of 10.5 million rose by 5800 to 422,445 last year.
The salaries of doctors will be raised as from January 1, 2017, because the flow of money in health care is adjusted by the yearly decree on payments for treatments which always takes effect on January 1.
