Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 4/2021: 123-140
Remuneration of Professional Soldiers in the Czech Republic and in the Slovak RepublicReviewed - Review
The paper analyses differences in remuneration of professional soldiers in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic between 1999 and 2020. This structural analysis focuses on changes in respective remuneration systems and their design. Results of the presented research enable to identify differences in the development of remuneration of professional soldiers after the split of the Czechoslovak Federation in 1993. The paper submits development of the amounts of salary for selected military ranks, their comparison and relation to general trends in domestic labor market and relation to average costs of living in respective countries. Between 2016 and 2019, salaries of professional soldiers grew higher in the Czech Republic than in the Slovak Republic, in 2020, the pay gap is already narrowing.
Keywords: Remuneration of professional soldiers; Salary; Human Resource Management; Military
Published: December 15, 2021 Show citation
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