motivation of students to the professional-pedagogical activity

Remuneration plays a special role in the context of choosing a profession, so students, choosing the profession of a teacher, in some way pay attention to the level of payment for this profession and its growth rate. The article aims to study the impact of motivation on the prospect of students choosing a teacher's profession on the example of EU member states. Methods: theoretical and conceptual analysis, description, generalization, induction, deduction, observation, comparison, tabular and graphical representation, quantitative analysis, and grouping. Results: it is determined that in the general structure of professional education of students in higher education institutions of the European Union member states a high share is occupied by students in the field of teacher training without subject specialization in Denmark, Malta, Spain, Bulgaria, Belgium and Cyprus and students in the field of teacher training with subject specialization - in Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, and Sweden.