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Polish wages up 9.5% y/y in 2024: stats office

14.02.2025 01:00
The average wage in Poland rose by 9.5 percent last year compared with 2023, the country’s statistics office has reported.
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The average gross monthly wage in 2024 was PLN 8,181.72 (around EUR 1,960, USD 2,030), the state-run Statistics Poland (GUS) agency said earlier this week.

Statistics Polanreported last month that average wages in Poland's corporate sector in December were 9.8 percent higher than in the same month in 2023.

Meanwhile, inflation in Poland stood at 4.7 percent in year-on-year terms in December, unchanged from November, according to an estimate released by Statistics Poland in mid-January.

The country's minimum monthly wage increased to PLN 4,666 (EUR 1,120, USD 1,160) at the start of January, from PLN 4,300 in the second half of 2024.

More than 3.2 million Poles earn the minimum wage, according to government estimates.

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Source: TVN24, PAP, stat.gov.pl, money.pl