Salaries in Czechia:
by occupation and region

In the first quarter of 2026, the average gross salary was 50,282 CZK gross per month (ČSÚ). This is preliminary data – the statistical office will update it in a future release.

"Average" is the arithmetic mean for the entire economy, and it is pulled up by high salaries in IT, finance, and Prague. Half of employees earn less – which is why actual job postings often appear "poorer" than the statistics.

A more realistic benchmark is the median: the last published median was 45,523 CZK for the fourth quarter of 2025. For men, it was 48,342 CZK, for women – 42,692 CZK, and 80% of employees earned between 23,282 and 89,006 CZK.

There is no median for the first quarter of 2026 at all: ČSÚ directly states that the old data source is closed, and the new administrative register has not yet been launched. Therefore, presenting the median as the "2026 salary" would be incorrect.

This is a rare case where there is a direct official answer to the question. ISPV publishes the salary median by citizenship: in 2025, the median salary for employees with Ukrainian citizenship in the private sector was 34,437 CZK gross – this represents 144.9 thousand people.

The median salary for employees with Czech citizenship for the same year was 43,632 CZK. This means the gap is 9,195 CZK per month, or about 21%. Over the year, the median for Ukrainians increased by 6.8%, meaning the gap is slowly narrowing but not disappearing.

In the public sector (schools, hospitals, civil service), the median for Ukrainians is higher – 37,186 CZK, but only 5.1 thousand people work there.

What is missing from any system is a breakdown by "citizenship × specific profession." Therefore, any "top professions for Ukrainians with salaries" found online is fiction: neither ČSÚ nor ISPV publishes such data.

22,400 CZK gross per month or 134.40 CZK per hour for a 40-hour week – from January 1 to December 31, 2026.

An important change: since 2025, legally guaranteed wage groups (zaručená mzda) have been abolished in the private sector. Now, the minimum wage is the only legal threshold, and a higher level can only be set by a collective agreement. Previously, skilled work automatically had a higher minimum – now it does not.

Guaranteed wage groups have been retained in the public sector. If you have part-time employment, the minimum is recalculated proportionally. More details can be found at minimum wage.

There is no universal rule of "minus 20–25%" – and this is the main thing to know, as this figure is repeated everywhere.

Under a standard employment contract, an employee pays 7.1% for social and 4.5% for health insurance. Then, tax is calculated, but already with a taxpayer discount, and if there are children, also with a child discount, which can significantly change the result.

The final amount is also affected by the signed tax declaration (daňové prohlášení), multiple employers simultaneously, and the annual social security ceiling for high incomes. Therefore, two people with the same gross salary can receive different net amounts – for the exact sum, ask your employer for a calculation.

Because in the Czech Republic, official salary statistics consist of two separate surveys, and they provide different numbers for the same profession.

Mzdová sféra – private employers (3 million employees, median 43,241 CZK). Platová sféra – public sector: state schools, hospitals, civil service (684,000 employees, median 48,064 CZK).

For medical professionals, the difference is huge. For a general nurse, it's 44,218 CZK in the private sector versus 62,177 CZK in the public sector; for a general practitioner, it's 44,994 versus 94,328 CZK, more than double. The reason is simple: the private sample under these codes includes small private practices, while the main body of medical staff works in public hospitals.

Therefore, in each profession card, we specify which sector the figure is taken from: for medicine, education, and social care, we show the public sector figures; for industry, trade, logistics, and IT – the private sector. A single "averaged" figure for a doctor would halve their salary.

Prague leads by a large margin — 67,945 Kč gross (Q1 2026), the only region above the national average. Next are South Moravia (49,510 Kč) and Central Bohemia (49,145 Kč), with the lowest level in the Karlovy Vary Region (42,391 Kč).

Do not compare salaries without costs: rent in Prague is significantly more expensive, and the higher income there is partly "eaten up" by the cost of living. Calculate the real gain as salary minus rent and transport.

Another interesting detail: in the public sector, regional differences almost disappear (45,206 – 54,730 Kč median), while in the private sector, the gap is huge (37,723 – 51,920 Kč). Prague is "expensive" precisely because of the private sector.

Salaries by city do not officially exist in the Czech Republic: the ČSÚ (Czech Statistical Office) stopped district statistics back in Q1 2006. Therefore, figures like "average salary in Brno or Ostrava" found online are either a region named after the city or a survey.

In Q1 2026 compared to Q1 2025, salaries grew by 8.1% nominally and 6.4% really. The difference between these figures is inflation: nominal growth shows how much more money you were credited, real growth shows how much more you can buy with it.

But if you look at several years, the picture is not as smooth as in the news headlines. In 2022, real salaries fell by 5.3%, and in 2023 by another 7.0%, despite nominal growth of 5–8%. This means people were actually getting poorer for two years in a row. A turnaround only happened in 2024.

We show the full Q1 2022–2026 series on this page in a separate block and take it from a single publication: the ČSÚ revises old values retroactively, and a graph compiled from releases of different years would compare different versions of the same data.