In October 2022, the average gross monthly salary for entities employing more than nine persons in Poland amounted to ******** zloty. Half (median = fifth decile) of the employed employees received gross remuneration of up to ******** zloty.

Key information about Poland Household Income per Capita

• Poland Annual Household Income per Capita reached 7,645.611 USD in Dec 2023, compared with the previous value of 6,056.291 USD in Dec 2022.
• Poland Annual Household Income per Capita data is updated yearly, available from Dec 1995 to Dec 2023, with an averaged value of 4,412.766 USD.
• The data reached an all-time high of 7,645.611 USD in Dec 2023 and a record low of 1,685.687 USD in Dec 2000.
• In the latest reports, Retail Sales of Poland dropped 3.771 % YoY in May 2023.

CEIC calculates Annual Household Income per Capita from Monthly Average Household Income per Capita multiplied by 12 and converts it into USD. Statistics Poland provides Average Household Income per Capita in local currency. The International Monetary Fund average market exchange rate is used for currency conversions.

The minimum gross wage per hour in Poland as of July 2024 amounted to **** zloty. As of January 2025, the minimum hourly wage will increase to **** zloty gross, an increase of **** percent. Purchasing power standards (PPS) in the CEE region From 2009 to 2023, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe experienced increased GDP per capita in purchasing power standards. For example, Czechia's GDP per capita amounted to ** PPS last year, reaching the highest level among Central and Eastern European countries but lower than the EU average. A similar situation occurred in Poland, one of the countries experiencing an increase in GDP per capita, amounting to ** PPS. On the other hand, the highest actual individual consumption per capita expressed in purchasing power standards in the CEE region was recorder in Lithuania, Slovenia, and Romania. However, all Central and Eastern European countries reached actual individual consumption per capita below the EU average. Inflation’s effect on Poles Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation has increased drastically. That caused people to look at their expenditure of salaries more responsibly but also made them want to earn more. From 2021 to 2023, a fair share of Poles felt that food prices and fuel increased the most over the year. In 2022, due to the rising of some products and services in recent months in Poland, ** percent of people bought less and looked for cheaper products during daily shopping. Moreover, around ** percent of Poles gave up higher expenses to put them off for later. Inflation causes people to look for cheaper products. However, only about ** percent of Poles had higher trust in the promotions due to inflation.

In 2023, the highest ratio of 40 to 60 square meter apartments in Poland to the average net salary was the highest in Warsaw, reaching 84.8 percent.

In the third quarter of 2020, both the highest average price per 1 m2 of a new apartment and the net average wage was observed in Warsaw. In Gdańsk and Warsaw, the most significant disproportion between the price per 1 m2 of a new apartment and the average salary was recorded.

Poland’s average per capita purchasing power amounted to over ****** euros, which is ** percent less than the European average in 2024. In that year, the highest per person purchasing power was in ******, with nearly ****** euros. Retail market overview In the first quarter of 2023, the Warsaw agglomeration was the largest retail market in Poland. It offered a total retail space area amounting to *** million square meters of Gross Leasable Area. At the same time, medium-sized cities had the most significant shopping center space per 1,000 inhabitants in its agglomeration, with a density rate of *** square meters. The highest vacancy rate of retail space in Poland was recorded in Poznań, amounting to *** percent. Retail sales In 2023, retail sales at current prices in Poland, achieved by commercial and non-commercial enterprises, amounted to more than **** trillion zloty and was *** percent higher than in the previous year. Discount stores are becoming increasingly popular in Poland. The leader among them is Biedronka. In the first months of 2022, Biedronka accounted for **** percent of discount store visits. It was followed by Lidl.

Michał Gajewski, the CEO of Santander Bank Polska, became a record-breaker in ranking the best-earning CEOs of companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in Poland in 2024, worth 2.6 billion zloty.

The average representation of women on the boards of WIG20 companies (Warsaw Stock Exchange) in Poland amounted to 24 percent in 2020. According to the source, this was below the European average, which accounted for 31 percent. At the management level, the average representation of women was low and amounted to only 13 percent.