Earnings are more fairly distributed in Poland
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The national average salary in companies employing over 9 people, reported monthly by the Central Statistical Office (GUS), amounted to approximately PLN 5,000 in October 2018. Interestingly, this time the GUS also gave data on the distribution of wages in the enterprise sector. It shows that the median wage is only 80 percent of the national average salary. This means that half of the employees employed in entities received a salary of no more than PLN 2,900 net.
10 percent of the lowest-paid employees received a total gross salary not higher than PLN 2224, i.e. approx. PLN 1,616 net. In turn, 10 percent of the highest-earning employees in the country earned at least PLN 8,239.84 gross, or PLN 5,808 net.
