Poland's average labor cost at €8.6/h in 2015

In 2015, average hourly labor costs in the whole economy (excluding agriculture and public administration) were estimated to be €8.6 in Poland, the European statistics office, Eurostat said. In the European Union (EU), the figure stood at €25 and amounted to €29.5 in the euro area. The lowest hourly labor costs were recorded in Bulgaria (€4.1), Romania (€5.0), Lithuania (€6.8), Latvia (€7.1) and Hungary (€7.5), and the highest in Denmark (€41.3), Belgium (€39.1) and Sweden (€37.4), Labor costs are made up of wages and salaries plus non-wage costs such as employers' social contributions.