Methodology - Educational personnel and their wages
Persons employed in formal education can be divided into teaching and non-teaching staff. According to the Act on Teaching Staff, the term teaching staff at the level of early childhood education up to higher professional education refers to teachers, educators, special educators, psychologists, leisure time educators, teaching assistants, coaches, school leaders (headmasters, their deputies, and guidance counsellors).
Academics are employees of universities classified as academics by an internal regulation of the respective universities. These employees are devoted to pedagogical or scientific activities within their contracted work hours. Research workers who only do research work at universities and do not teach at all cannot be classified to academics. At the university level, academics include professors, senior lecturers (readers), lecturers (research assistants), assistants, junior lecturers and teaching staff involved in research, development, and innovation (research workers contributing to pedagogical activities).
The numbers of persons employed in education are converted to full-time equivalent persons in indicators published by the Czech Statistical Office.
Data on the number of persons employed in regional education is taken over from sources of a workplace of the State Statistical Service at the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports.
Above all, the Statistical yearbook of education - Performance indicators is used for this purpose. The number of persons employed in nursery, basic and secondary schools including conservatoires is as at 30 September, the number of higher professional schools is as at 31 October.
The Czech Statistical Office also draws data from the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports on the salaries of teachers in regional education and on the numbers and salaries of academic staff at public universities , namely from the Statistical Yearbook – Employees and wage resources. The average wages of employees are listed here without other personnel costs and other payments for work performed.
The term "teacher" used in the statistics of the Ministry of Education and Culture, in accordance with the law, designates all employees with direct teaching duties, including the headmaster and his deputy or guidance counsellor.