GUS: Salaries up by 3.7% y/y; employment by 1.1%

The average monthly salary in the Polish enterprise sector grew by 3.7 percent year-on-year and amounted to PLN 4,132 in April, according to data published by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) on Tuesday. In month-on-month terms salaries declined by 2.2 percent. Economists polled by the ISBNews agency had expected salaries to grow by 3.98 percent y/y. Employment in the sector amounted to 5.757 million, GUS said. It inched up by 1.1 percent y/y.