14.06.2016 Wages for the (Non)-Business Sphere Will Not Be Published Anymore

14 June 2016

The breakdown to the business sphere and the non-business one is neither established by any international regulation or recommendation, nor by any Czech standard. It was formed in the past in practice of the national statistics related to the classification of institutional sectors of the national accounts. “As the ESA95 will cease to be valid these spheres may not be clearly distinguished anymore. The new ESA 2010 establishes different criteria to classify entities to respective sectors, which relates, first of all, to the need to monitor debt and economy of government institutions, These are, however, inappropriate for purposes of the wage statistics. Therefore the Czech Statistical Office will not publish wages in this breakdown since the beginning of the reference year of 2017,” describes Iva Ritschelová, President of the Czech Statistical Office.

The indicator of the average wage in the non-business sphere is embedded into Czech legislation, in which it serves for the determination of salaries and compensations related to performance of titles of representatives of state power and state prosecutors. “The data for the before last year are used for the legislation purposes. Therefore there is enough time till 2019 relevant entities would select a suitable solution of the change notified in advance,” added Iva Ritschelová.

Seminar of experts, which the Czech Statistical Office arranged on the theme of the average wage indicator breakdown into the business and non-business sphere, was held on 8 June 2017. The participants, beside statisticians, came from representatives of the Supreme Administrative Court of the Czech Republic, Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office, Union of Judges ( Soudcovská unie ČR), Union of Public Prosecutors of the Czech Republic ( Unie státních zástupců České republiky ), Ministry of Finance, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and Office of the Government of the Czech Republic. “The seminar participants came to the consent that relevant law will have to be amended and the indicator shall be replaced and further negotiations shall follow ,” concluded the President of the Czech Statistical Office.

The Czech Statistical Office permanently recommends giving commonly used data on the average gross monthly nominal wages per full-time equivalent employees, instead of data on wages broken down into the business and non-business sphere. More information can be found in the journal of Statistika&My , press release of 6 June 2017 or, for instance, in news release on the average wages in the first quarter of 2016.

Contact:
Petra Báčová
Spokeswoman of the Czech Statistical Office
Telephone: 274 052 017
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E-mail: petra.bacova@czso.cz