2025-04-15 09:00
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2025-04-15 09:00
In 2024, almost all government administration employees got 20 % A raise – except for ministers and deputy ministers. Effect? The ministers earned in 2024 a record – on average by 8.4 thousand. PLN – less than their directors. Salaries on lower -ranking clerical positions exceed the salaries of managers managing central and provincial offices or are approaching this amount – writes Tuesday's Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
This situation is the result of many years of freezing wage in the positions of heads of government administration. This was done to avoid public criticism.
Only this year, thanks to the decision of the Ministry of Finance, 5 % The increases will cover not only officials, but also functional persons in the government.
According to “DGP”, The minister's constitutional pay is 17.8 thousand. PLN gross (this year as early as PLN 18.6 thousand), meanwhile The remuneration of directors in the ministries and the office of the Prime Minister is an amount of 26.2 thousand. PLN gross. Deputy ministers earned about 1.8 thousand PLN less than your bosses.
– The latest report of the head of the civil service for last year shows that the ministers, against the background of other employees in the ministries, occupy only the fourth place in terms of payroll. All directors in the entire administration earn much more than people holding key positions in the state. The wage system in government administration is on its head. There are even cases that the directors resort to state -owned companies after some time. The difference in earnings in favor of officials has been visible for many years, but What we are dealing with now is shocking -tells the newspaper Marek Reda, former general director of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodship Office.
– There should be no such situation when the minister who is politically and legally for the decisions made, earns less than other officials whose responsibility is smaller or even negligible – tells the newspaper prof. Jolanta Itrich-Drabarek, Vice-President of the Public Service Council.
5000 zlotys per hand. More than half of Poles earn less
The median gross remuneration in the national economy in October 2024 amounted to PLN 6,856.75 and was 18% lower than the average wage – the Central Statistical Office informed. After deducting taxes, half of the employed received just over PLN 5,000 per month. These are the latest median data at the market.
More in “DGP”.
ed. KWS
