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Nowa Huta and other achievments of PRL (People's Republic of Poland) [79]
Average wages in 2010
Something to bear in mind - in Poland, the black economy is huge. While that might be the "official" average wages, you'd be surprised as to the true extent of cash-in-hand work.
Urzad Gminy, she decided who gets money in her gmina for welfare also goes to places that have been let's say damaged by floods and decides if they get money for it. In her gmina in Podkarpackie that's how much they pay. Her husband works at a steel mill as a welder and makes like 1800zl. So it all depends on the job and what region you work in.
They're winding you up - a qualified welder in Poland is going to earn much more than 1800zl, especially in a place like that where qualified staff are very hard to come by. Heck, I was in Rzeszow not so long ago - and the place actually looks better than Szczecin and Bydgoszcz - neither of which are poor.
In fact - I was on the train to L'viv a few months ago. After Rzeszow, the landscape is full of new houses (actually - far more than even in Wielkopolskie) - where's the money coming from if the average wage is so low? But probably the best example of the lot is Medyka - many nice houses. Like Shegyni on the other side of the border (which also has very nice houses, untypical for rural Ukraine) - it's a guarantee that they were all built with black money.
It is a very common Polish trait to pretend to be earning far less than you actually do.
