Optimization of university teachers’ remuneration as a tool for sustainable development of higher education

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of problems and ways of their solution in the field of remuneration of scientific-pedagogical workers of higher education institutions. In modern pandemic realities the process of education is organized in a new format with the use of information and innovation technologies, which requires from a teacher additional labor inputs for mastering special tools and practices of teaching. That is why development of new approaches to labor remuneration for university teachers that meet modern requirements of economics acquires special significance at the present time. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to analyze the organization of teaching staff labor remuneration on the example of one of the universities in Samara region (Russian Federation) and to develop recommendations for its improvement. The results of the study are based on the study of domestic and foreign scientific literature on the remuneration of higher education teachers, the authors' own materials. The authors of the article systematized the stages of decision making on the problems of increasing the level of higher education institution personnel wages in Russia, performed a comparative analysis of average wages of university lecturers and hired employees of organizations in some subjects of RF in 2014 - 2019, presented an algorithm of building the scale of official salaries of the teaching staff, and proposed and justified specific recommendations for improving the basic part of the wages of the teaching staff.