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Over the period observed, the average monthly gross salary in the Polish national economy increased annually and reached *zloty in 2025. 

Salary changes in Poland

Despite the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Poland's average real wage and salary have been growing steadily. In December 2024, average gross wages reached a growth of *** percent. The monthly salary at the end of the fourth quarter of 2023 in the national economy amounted to zloty and in the enterprise sector — zloty.
Since 2003 the minimum wage has increased from *** zloty to zloty as of January 2025. As a result, Poland ranked second in Central and Eastern European countries in terms of the minimum wage in 2024. 

Employment in Poland

In 2023, nearly **** million people were working in Poland, and the employment rate has increased by **** percentage points since 2010. As a result, Poland also registered one of the lowest unemployment rates in the European Union. The average level of unemployment in the EU in 2023 was *** percent. In Poland, it was *** percent.
Poles have the average duration of working life in the European Union, working on average **** years. For comparison, the EU average amounted to **** years. However, they are among the busier nations in Europe, working an average of ** hours per week in the fourth quarter of 2023.
In the first quarter of 2024, ** percent of Poles were satisfied with their jobs. And the main reasons for changing employers were * and the *.