KONKURENCIESCHOPNÉ PLATY V MIESTNEJ ŠTÁTNEJ SPRÁVE. REGIONÁLNY KOMPENZAČNÝ PRÍPLATOK
COMPETITIVE SALARIES IN LOCAL STATE ADMINISTRATION – REGIONAL COMPENSATION CONTRIBUTION

Author(s): Tomáš Černěnko
Subject(s): Regional Geography, Public Administration, Labor relations, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: regional pay gaps; inersectoral pay gaps; district offices; civil service;
Summary/Abstract: Uniform wages offered by the public administration are not always competitive compared to private sector wages in every district. This is reflected in high levels of turnover, vacancies or an unbalanced age structure of employees and leads to a lower quality of public services provided. One way to address this would be to introduce a system to compensate for regional pay gaps. The aim of our paper is to propose a mechanism for determining the regional compensatory allowance for employees of district offices. We used two approaches to determine it. The first consists in expressing the share of individual salary classes in the national average wage and their subsequent reflection on individual regions and districts. The second is based on calculation of the gaps between individual salary classes and their subsequent projection into individual regions and districts. Together, we offer 4 scenarios (2 theoretical approaches with 2 variants) for determining the regional compensatory allowance. The result is regional pay scales and tables with the amount of the regional compensation surcharge, as well as a quantification of each scenario. From our point of view, the most suitable for implementation is a scenario based on the projection of the share of wages in the average regional wage at the district level.

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