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Dana Ondrušková , Richard Pospíšil: A Comparative Study of Teacher’s Salary Formula
Methods, Case of Regional School Funding

By establishing a new calculation formula, the MEYS sets the rules for making the
funding more flexible going beyond the pure number of students and considering other
relevant factors in the allocation process by increasing the number of parameters that
would reflect different factors to add some more flexibility in funding scheme as the
allocation formulas should always reflect the education priorities and education policies of
the governance level which adopts them. Unlike the student basket former calculation, the
Phmax formula allows to take into account the groups and grades of particular educational
establishments, specialisation bonus for educational advisory services or
methodologists for forecasting and preventing major educational and formative problems.
Other surcharges and bonuses are individual and depend on headmaster´s choice. Unlike
the student basket former calculation, the Phmax formula allows to take into account the
groups and grades of particular educational establishments.

Specialisation bonus for educational advisory services or methodologists for
forecasting and preventing major educational and formative problems. Other
surcharges and bonuses are individual and depend on headmaster´s choice.

Teacher´s salary scale and it´s components.
To make the overview complete it is useful to provide information on teacher´s salary
scale and it´s components. Salary scale is settled by government regulation. More aspects
are taken into account: salary groups, compulsory and non-compulsory components.
Chart No 2 gives a description of components included in Phmax calculation.

Chart No 2: description of components of Phmax calculation

management
premium
compulsory
components
specialisation
bonus

non-compulsory
(3) PHmax component bonuses,
components
supplementary
allowances

salary group

Source: Own processing

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