Uposażenie asystentów starszych w polskim państwowym szkolnictwie akademickim (od 1 października 1923 do 31 stycznia 1934 roku)

Abstract

The article presents how the system of remunerating senior assistants in the Polish national higher education functioned in the years 1923–1934 and how the remuneration changed over that period. The article has a source character and is based on the analysis of national legal references from the years 1918–1934. It also shows the main advantages and disadvantages of the discussed remuneration system as well as the circumstances in which it was introduced and withdrawn. The author discusses the stages of legislative transformations pertinent to remuneration in the higher education system and the place of the point system and later on the sum system (from the years 1934–1939). The article characterizes the point system that was used to determine the remuneration, discusses particular elements of the remuneration (basic remuneration to which every senior assistant was entitled over the entire period when the point system was used and supplementary remuneration). The amount of particular elements of remuneration was defined in remuneration points whose value depended on the inflation rate. Such a construction of the remuneration system allowed for reacting in a relatively flexible way to changes of the consumption prices in the economy, and thus provided a better protection of the remuneration’s purchasing power. Initially, changes to the value of a remuneration point were considerable, but after the reform of Władysław Grabski, fluctuations in this area were reduced. Changes were usually introduced every month, and since 1926, when the public finances were stabilized, the value of a remuneration point was maintained on a stable level which was not changed until January 1934.