Poll: PLN 1177 sufficient to provide for basic needs

The average salary which enables a person to subsist amounts to PLN 1,177 per person in households of three or four people, according to a survey by pollster CBOS. To have an average standard of life, an average Pole needs to earn PLN 1,907, while PLN 2,595 ought to be enough to have a decent quality of life. In the case of single-person households, the subsistence level stands at PLN 1,916, the average quality life should require salaries of PLN 2,850, and PLN 3,954 should guarantee a decent quality of life, the survey showed. The survey was conducted between September 17-23 on a sample of 972 adult Poles in face-to-face interviews.