Total Labour Costs
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This publication contains the results of the Labour Cost Survey (LCS) for 2003. These results reflect the level of labour costs broken down by branch, region, ownership, and the size of reporting units.
Labour costs comprise the following:
- wages and salaries (including wages in kind counted into earning),
- wage compensation for hours not worked,
- social benefits,
- social costs and expenditures (both statutory and non-statutory),
- personnel costs,
- taxes and subsidies related to employing people.
Data were collected by Questionnaire ÚNP 4-01. Reporting units were the incorporated businesses of business sphere and organizations of non-business sphere. Starting 2003 data include previously missing information on the part of the Ministry of Defence of the CR and the Ministry of the Interior of the CR which includes information on the organisations under the ministries without own legal personality – i.e. data on civilian employees and regular members of the armed forces and the police of the CR. LCS encompassed all branches of the national economy and all size groups of reporting units. LCS among units with 1-499 employees was on a selective basis, among units with 500 employees or more it was an across-the-board survey. The Questionnaire ÚNP 4-01 was sent out to 5,911 businesses employing 1,537 thousand persons. The response rate by region ranged between 66.3 % and 84.4 %, with the average of 76.9%. The results based on the statistical set were weighted to the full number of units of the basic set based on the CSO Business Register by branch and size group.
Selected Aggregate Information for the Czech Republic
a) Average Labour Costs for 2003 (per month and 1 employee)
- Average for the Czech Republic in total 24,567 CZK
Differentiation Minimum Maximum
by NACE Section Hotels and restaurants 16,126 CZK Financial intermediation 49,509 CZK
by region Jihočeský 20,240 CZK Capital Prague 30,622 CZK
by management type Co-operative 16,630 CZK International 29,739 CZK
by size group 1-9 employees 21,181 CZK 1000 or more 28,495 CZK
b) Labour Cost Structure for 2003
- Wages 63.20 %
- Wage compensation for hours not worked 7.03 %
- Social benefits 1.94 %
- Total social costs and expenditures 26.55 %
- Statutory social insurance 25.43 %
Non-statutory social costs and expenditures 0.49 %
Severance pay 0.54 %
Other 0.09 %
- Taxes and subsidies -0.13 %
Notes:
- As the resulting data are first calculated and then rounded off, the sums in some cases may differ by one.
- The level of average monthly wage for 2003 is not consistent with that mentioned in former publications of the Czech Statistical Office because of LCS population frame. It differs from other statistical surveys on wages in many aspects, especially in the sample scope and the size of reporting units.
The following symbols have been used throughout:
The symbol of dot (.) shows that the figure is not available or cannot be relied on.
The symbol of asterisk (*) in place of a figure indicates individual data.