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20 Feb 2012
Work / Minimum basic salary in Poland [96]
ifor bach
No, despite the ridicule, she was more or less correct.
Minimum wage is 1.405. Hours per week is 38, there are 4,5 weeks in a month. I think the typical number of hours is 162.
That makes PLN 8,67 gross. Take off deductions and its PLN 6,72 per hour. A supermarket cashier in a soft labour market like Szczecin would not earn more than about 10% above the minumum. I dont think all of those people are lazy, some of them just have lower academic abilities and to a bunch of unpaid overtime probably wouldnt get them much more in life than a pat on the back and a food hamper at christmas.
The minimum wage has just gone up by about 6% though.
Comparing that to an accounting clerk in Poznan does not make sense - for a start 6000 cost to company is 5000 gross and presumably that is for someone with a bit of English ability. That is about right in a town where you are competing with 4 or 5 big outsource centres, each of which might employ 100 such clerks.
ifor bach
No, despite the ridicule, she was more or less correct.
Minimum wage is 1.405. Hours per week is 38, there are 4,5 weeks in a month. I think the typical number of hours is 162.
That makes PLN 8,67 gross. Take off deductions and its PLN 6,72 per hour. A supermarket cashier in a soft labour market like Szczecin would not earn more than about 10% above the minumum. I dont think all of those people are lazy, some of them just have lower academic abilities and to a bunch of unpaid overtime probably wouldnt get them much more in life than a pat on the back and a food hamper at christmas.
The minimum wage has just gone up by about 6% though.
Comparing that to an accounting clerk in Poznan does not make sense - for a start 6000 cost to company is 5000 gross and presumably that is for someone with a bit of English ability. That is about right in a town where you are competing with 4 or 5 big outsource centres, each of which might employ 100 such clerks.