The Gender Pay Gap in the Czech Republic

The paper deals primarily with the issue of the Gender Pay Gap in the Czech economy. The issue of equal pay for workers in both the business and non-business sectors is one of the important priorities of the EU's 2030 strategy. Europe-wide, it can be said that it has been declining in the long term. Our paper, which analyses data on this for the period from 2013 to 2024, reports on the situation and developments over the past twelve years in the Czech Republic. In this article we examine the Gender pay gap and its relation to the education of workers in the following educational categories: elementary, secondary vocational, general secondary, bachelor, master and doctorate (Ph.D.). The second research question is then formulated as follows. Here we have done the analysis for three age categories: under 30, 30-50 and over 50. The data sources for the analysis were the annual database Average Earnings Information System (ISPV), which is prepared for the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic and is updated regularly once a year in the second quarter of the year. Some basic time series analyses were performed in MS Excel using its standard functions. More complex analyses were then performed in Python, in particular in the NumPy and stats models modules. For graphical displays we used MS Excel functions. Our results suggest that the gender pay gap in percentage terms has been decreasing very slowly over the long term.