Total Labour Costs

Introductory note

This publication contains the results of the Labour Cost Survey (LCS) for 2004. 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, include 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 6,021 businesses employing 1,521 thousand persons. The response rate by region ranged between 72.4 % and 90.7 %, with the average of 78.8%. 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 2004 (per month and 1 employee)

Differentiation Minimum Maximum

by NACE Section Hotels and restaurants 17,362 CZK Financial intermediation 51,925 CZK

by region Vysočina 22,393 CZK Capital Prague 32,776 CZK

by management type Co-operative 18,402 CZK International 32,418 CZK

by size group 1-9 employees 22,338 CZK 1000 or more 30,119 CZK

b) Labour Cost Structure for 2004

- Wages 63.28 %
- Wage compensation for hours not worked 7.09 %
- Social benefits 1.89 %
- Total social costs and expenditures 26.60 %
Statutory social insurance 25.60 %
Non-statutory social costs and expenditures 0.51 %
Severance pay 0.40 %
Other 0.09 %
- Personnel costs 1.28 %
- Taxes and subsidies -0.14 %

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 2004 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.

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