Thousands of professors speak out against unfair salaries

In three large, prestigious Hungarian higher education institutions, a total of nearly 3,000 professors are demanding decent, competitive university staff salaries. The academics are calling for an immediate pay rise, an end to the lack of financial recognition and a guarantee of uninterrupted and high-quality teaching, writes Hetzmann Mercédesz for Daily News Hungary.

Nearly 1,500 university staff at Eötvös Loránd University, around 1,000 at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and more than 250 at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music signed the open letters on the above-mentioned topic, sent to the state higher education institutions’ maintenance authorities, G7 reports.

According to the open letter, the average salary for associate professors this year is HUF504,480 (US$1,390) gross. This indicates that the average salary at higher university posts is now lower than the salary of trainee teachers. In addition, last year’s inflation of nearly 18% has contributed significantly to the depreciation of the university minimum salary.
Full report on the Daily News Hungary site