The minimum wage in 2026 is still a contentious issue between the government, employee environments and trade unionists. How the minimum wage will present next year is not only relevant to the employees themselves, but also translates into a number of indicators, benefits and add -ons.
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Currently, the minimum wage is PLN 4,666 gross, However, WW 2026 The lowest national will increase. The key issue is: how much? On July 11, a meeting of the Social Dialogue Council was held, where the lowest minimum minimum minimum was discussed by the government proposed by the government and expected by employees and trade unionists.
There has been no agreement in this field for a long time. On June 12, the government decided that next year's minimum wage will increase by PLN 140 compared to the current one, So it will be PLN 4806 gross. This is a different amount from the one suggested by the Ministry of Labor, which was PLN 5020, which was to implement the EU directive on the minimum wage.
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The amount of the minimum wage in 2026, which is so far adopted by the government, is far lower than the trade union's expectations.
“Trade unions unanimously believe that the minimum wage increase should be at the level of PLN 5015the increase in the wages of the budgetary sphere, because it is in one package is 12 percent, the increase in pensions and pensions is inflation plus 50 percent. real payroll growth of 2025, and the increase in pay in the national economy at 9.05 percent, “enumerated Dariusz Brzęczek, chairman of the Opole region of NSZZ Solidarność, who was a guest of Radio Opole.
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Employers stand in a quite different position, for whom the government's minimum wage increase in 2026 is too high. They suggest that the minimum wage does not increase by more than PLN 50.
In an interview with the WNP.pl website, prof. Stanisław Gomułka, an economist of BCC, admitted that a significant increase in the minimum wage may attract wage growth and shoot an inflation spiral.
It is worth adding that the government has already indicated how to present a minimum hourly rate in 2026. It is to be raised to a level to PLN 31.40 gross per hour (this is a 90 grosze increase).
