Business executives earn PLN 12,500 on average

Board members and directors make about five times more money than regular employees in Poland, according to a Sedlak & Sedlak survey. The average salary of the group amounted to PLN 12,500 (pay before tax), Rzeczpospolita daily reported. The average salary among employees with higher education totaled PLN 4,150 last year (PLN 100 more than in 2013). Regarding almost zero-inflation rate, their wages increased by 2.5 percent y/y. Low-level employees earn on average PLN 2,650 (PLN 50 more than in 2013). As much as 61 percent of board members and directors are satisfied with the amount of money they make whereas when it comes to all of the respondents, 62 percents of them said the opposite. There were as many as 125,600 participants included in the study.