The average gross Polish monthly wage last month was PLN 5,489.21 (EUR 1,215, USD 1,320), the state-run statistics agency reported.
Meanwhile, employment in Polish companies increased 0.3 percent in March on average in year-on-year terms, while decreasing by 0.5 percent compared with a month earlier, according to the statistical office.
The figures are for firms with more than nine employees.
The Central Statistical Office said in a statement accompanying the latest data that the increase in average wages in March was in part due to “quarterly and annual bonuses as well as discretionary bonuses” paid to employees.
Meanwhile, one in four employees recently surveyed in Poland by human resources firm Randstad said they were afraid of losing their job due to the coronavirus crisis.
The Polish government has come up with a multibillion relief and stimulus package to mitigate the economic implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said last month that his government’s “anti-crisis shield” would deliver a massive injection of funds from state coffers in order to protect jobs, help the country’s entrepreneurs and maintain the liquidity of companies.
Poland’s president at the end of last week signed into law a measure to offer more support to the nation’s economy amid the coronavirus disruption.
A total of 9,453 people have tested positive for the COVID-19 disease in Poland, with 362 deaths from the coronavirus so far, public health officials said on Monday morning.
(gs/pk)
Source: PAP