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Polish wages up y/y in Q3 2024: stats office

13.11.2024 19:30
The average monthly wage in Poland in the third quarter of this year rose by 13.4 percent compared with the same quarter of 2023, the country’s statistics office reported on Wednesday.
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The average gross monthly wage in the third quarter of 2024 was PLN 8,161.62 (EUR 1,880, USD 1,985), the Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said.

This amount marked a 1.5 percent increase over the second quarter of the year, according to the office.

The state-run statistics agency reported last month that average wages in Poland's corporate sector in September increased by 10.3 percent compared with the same month a year earlier.

Meanwhile, inflation in Poland stood at 5 percent in year-on-year terms in October, according to a flash estimate released by Statistics Poland at the end of last month.

Poland's government in September approved a proposal to increase the country’s minimum wage to PLN 4,666 (EUR 1,085, USD 1,196) a month from January next year.

At the moment, the minimum monthly wage in Poland is PLN 4,300.

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Source: PAP, polskieradio24.pl