The right wage in the right place?
Lawyers and IT specialists are the best paid professionals in Poland. Their average salaries range from zł.3,200 to zł.50,000 per month and from zł.1,753 to zł.7,000 per month respectively, according to research published at the end of September by job website GazetaPraca.pl.
| High earners | ||
| Average monthly salary for managers | ||
| City | Earnings (in zł.) | |
| Tri-city | 7,000 | |
| Wrocław | 5,000 | |
| Kielce | 4,500 | |
| Poznań | 3,500-4,000 | |
| Łódź | 3,500 | |
| Warsaw | 3,500 | |
| Słupsk | 3,000 | |
| Lublin | 3,000 | |
| Kraków | 1,200-1,500 | |
| Rzeszów | 1,200 | |
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Source: GazetaPraca.pl
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The earnings of a sales assistant from Słupsk - zł.620 - was found to be the lowest monthly salary, while the earnings of accountants vary most - from zł.850 in Słupsk, to zł.14,000 in Warsaw. In turn, a welder in Słupsk earns about zł.5,000 - twice as much as his Warsaw counterpart.
The website compared earnings in 10 selected Polish cities for the 30 most popular professions, such as IT specialist, journalist, manager, accountant, nurse, clerk, and sales representative.
The contrasts between remuneration are highest not between Poland's regions but within them, especially between the capital and the rest of the Mazowieckie voivodship, according to Maciej H. Grabowski, an expert at The Gdańsk Institute for Market Economics (IBnGR). The earnings between the East and the West of Poland vary too, he added.
Grabowski noted that the contrast in rates of pay between various professions has decreased over the past two years.
"Contrasts grew for about 10 years, but this trend was reversed in 2006, mainly thanks to the growth of the lowest salaries," he said.
Despite projections for lower economic growth in Poland in the coming years, the labor market in Poland will grow, Grabowski said.
An average gross monthly salary reached zł.3,165.14 in August - two percent less than in July, according to the most recent Central Statistical Office publication on earnings.
