Wages of nurses are lower than salaries of administrative staff

According to daily Hospodárske noviny from 25/11/2011 the average gross basic wage of nurses is € 482. Midwives earn € 490. Those are the statistics of National Health Information Centre. According to pay scale of Bratislava University Hospital even administrative staff (officers, technicians or librarians) earns more than them. The new draft Act should guarantee them a minimum wage of € 640. This draft is, however, inconvenient for doctors, who say, that they can come to the situation, when nurse will earn more than a doctor. There is also another discontent group – so called lower health care professionals, ergo laboratorians, technicians, sanitarians, etc. Higher wages for them were also not contested yet.