Where do We Stand Now?
Where do We Stand Now?
As the first step towards establishing a performance-based career model more attractive to the younger generation than the current one, a unified teacher and researcher salary/compensation system will be introduced from 2001. The fundamental concept behind this system is that the actual income will essentially be determined by a career promotion scheme based on strict criteria. The income relevant to particular career stages (assistant, assistant professor, associate professor) will be defined as a given percentage (45, 50, and 70%) of the guaranteed university councils’ pay, while teaching and research positions will be exactly matched to each other. We believe the guaranteed professorial salary will be set to at least HUF 245,000 per month in 2001. In order to facilitate the career start of young teachers and researchers, we aim to create the György Békésy postdoctoral fellowship, thus providing the top 250 fresh graduates with an associate professorial salary within the framework of a national granting system. The on-going Bolyai fellowship system will be kept in place. Finally, the István Széchenyi fellowship will serve to reward the best 150 associate professors with full professorial salaries, again under a national granting system. The introduction in 2001 of a unified teacher and researcher salary system will result in an average 30% salary increase for researchers. The honorarium of Academy of Sciences doctors, correspondence, and full members will be substantially increased. The corresponding increase will be 25.5% in 2001, and yet another 25% in 2002, thus the honorarium of doctors, correspondence, and full members will reach as much as HUF 64,000 (80,000), 224,000 (280,000) and 288,000 (360,000), respectively, in 2001 (2002).
