Abstract
Teacher salaries, in the long term, co-determine the quality of teachers and education in schools. The relative teachers' pay compared with salaries in alternative professions in a country also determines what ranks prospective young teachers recruit from, which of them ultimately become teachers and whether the best of them sustain a long-term career in teaching.
For long relative salaries of Czech teachers have been among the lowest among more than 30 most developed countries of the world (OECD). Also in 2015, as the study shows, increases in teacher salaries only hardly kept pace with the trend of salaries of other tertiary-educated public and private sector employees.
In the last decade, the unfavourable relative pay situation of Czech teachers has effectively not changed.