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Teachers’ and school heads’ salaries and allowances is a yearly data collection.

Unit A6 - Platforms, Studies and Analysis in the European Education and Culture Executive agency (EACEA) of the European Commission cooperates with the OECD secretariat to prepare the data collection tools:

  • a manual including common definitions, which are presented as the glossary of this visualization tool
  • a common questionnaire.

Data are collected jointly by the two respective networks who cooperate at national level:

  • the Eurydice network for EACEA
  • the indicator on national systems (INES) network for the collection and the adjudication of system-level descriptive information on educational structures, policies and practices (NESLI) for the OECD.

Any divergence to definitions or national specificities important to understand data are available in the country-specific notes under the relevant graphs/maps.

All information is collected according to the International standard classification of education (ISCED 2011).

All salary data are collected in the national currency.

EACEA and the OECD secretariat undertake a joint cleaning phase to clarify with countries belonging to the two networks any remaining issue. For countries, which do not participate in NESLI, the cleaning phase is managed by EACEA solely.

For this visualization tool, all data sets and texts are prepared by EACEA and checked by the Eurydice national units.

Use of Eurostat data

Some of the data presented here are calculated based on Eurostat data. The following data sets are used:

  • Euro/ECU exchange rates to convert salaries in national currency into euros
    ([ERT_BIL_EUR]; time frequency: annual; statistical information: average; unit of measure: national currency)
  • Purchasing power parities (PPPs) to calculate salaries in purchasing power standard (PPS) and thus facilitate international comparison
    ([PRC_PPP_IND]; time frequency: annual; national accounts indicator (ESA 2010): purchasing power parities (EU27_2020=1); Analytical categories for purchasing power parities (PPPs) calculation: actual individual consumption)
  • harmonized index of consumer prices (HICP) to calculate salaries at constant prices for trends to adjust for the effects of inflation, using the HICP rate (instead of HICP 2015=100).
    ([PRC_HICP_AIND]; time frequency: annual; unit of measure: annual average index; classification of individual consumption by purpose (COICOP): all-items HICP).

Tools for the data collection