Compared to the second quarter of last year gross wages rose nominally by around 2,800 crowns. Consumer prices increased by 2.5 percent over the same period.
“In some sectors, the wages of employees have not increased in real terms,” pointed out Jitka Erhartová, head of the Department of Labor Statistics of the CZSO. Statisticians recorded the highest growth in the average wage against the same period in 2023 in health and social care, where wages rose by about 11 percent. Employees in the field of water supply and activities related to wastewater, waste and sanitation improved by 7.8 percent.
On the contrary, the gross nominal salary in education increased the least, by 2.1 percent. Workers in public administration, defense and mandatory social security nominally improved by less than three percent.
In a year-on-year comparison, median wages also increasedi.e. their mean value. In the second quarter, it amounted to 38,529 crowns, which was 5.8 percent more year-on-year. For men, the median was higher, reaching CZK 41,540, while for women it was CZK 35,565. Eighty percent of employees received wages between 20,652 and 75,570 crowns.
Employees in Prague have the highest wages, on average 56,144 crowns gross. Central Bohemia follows with less than 49,000 crowns.
At the opposite end of the scale is the Karlovy Vary Region with CZK 39,000 gross. In no other region is the average wage below 40,000 crowns. The closest to this limit is the Pardubice region with an average of 40,538 crowns.
The real wage in the Czech Republic rose year-on-year even in the first quarter of this year. This happened for the first time after the previous more than two years of declines. Excluding price growth, average salaries in the Czech Republic have been increasing continuously since the beginning of 2014.