The average gross monthly wage is the ratio of wages excl. other personnel expenses per registered employee per month. The wage includes basic wage and salaries, supplementary and additional wage or salary payments, bonuses and remunerations, wage and salary compensation, awards for working readiness and other wage or salary components, which were part of the employees‘ pay in the given period. The wage does not include wage or salary compensations for the days of temporary incapacity for work or quarantine paid by the employer.
This refers to gross wage, i.e. wage before the health insurance and social security deductions, before income tax advance, and before other legal or agreed-on deductions.
Increase (decrease) of the average nominal wage shows percentage of increase (decrease) of the average nominal wage compared to the corresponding period of the previous year.
Increase (decrease) of the average real wage shows the percentage of increase (decrease) of the ratio of the average nominal wage index and consumer price index in the corresponding period.
Registered number of employees includes persons under employment, service or membership relation (where work relationship makes part of the membership) to the employer (hereinafter only “employment“).
Average registered number of employees (headcount)(quarterly)
is calculated as arithmetical mean of the (respective three) monthly average numbers (calculated as the sum of daily values divided by the number of calendar days in a month).
Average registered number of employees (full time equivalent) is an estimate of the average registered number of employees (headcount) by type of their employment as determined in the employment contracts with the employer.
The data on the number of employees and average gross monthly wages do not include persons in public office (e.g. deputies, senators, members of councils at all levels), judges, women on maternity leave, persons on parental leave (if not simultaneously in employment), apprentices, persons working for a company under the contract of work other than employment, employees of businesses not subject to statistical survey.
Since Q1 2009 the labour and wage statistics showed changes in methodology of survey and presentation of results.
Important changes in methodology are the following:
- data are processed and published according to a new Classification of Economic Activities
CZ-NACE (national version NACE Rev.2), which replaced the before used OKEÈ classification (national version NACE Rev.1.1).
- new methods of non-response estimates (imputation) were applied and estimates for non-surveyed part of the population (grossing up) based on the administrative data sources were newly introduced
- data on the number of employees and average wages FTE (earlier natural persons), for the entire national economy are provided.
Average gross monthly wage for the entire national economy includes data for all employees. The average wage monthly wage refers to FTE and reflects the types of employment.
The data are preliminary, revised data for the previous period will be available always upon the procession of data for the reporting quarter.
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Average gross wages and salaries:
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| Y-O-Y Increase/Decrease (%): | Nominal: 2,4 |
 | Real: 0,6 |
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