In 2025, according to the new project, the minimum wage will increase from January 1 to PLN 4,666 gross, and the minimum hourly rate to PLN 30.50 gross.
Minimum wage 2025 – rates
The Regulation of the Council of Ministers of September 12, 2024 indicates the new value of the minimum wage for work and the value of the minimum hourly rate in 2025.
It was determined that from January 1, 2024 the minimum wage will be PLN 4,666 gross. However, the minimum hourly rate will be: PLN 30.50 gross.
Minimum wage 2025 – how much will it cost?
What will the new minimum wage be in 2025? If we assume that the employee will not benefit from, for example, the youth tax benefit or pay contributions to Employee Equity Plans, then his/her net salary will be approx. PLN 3,510.92 per hand.
However, the hourly wage, assuming that a given person is employed on a mandate contract and works 168 hours per month, will amount to approx. PLN 22.03 net per hour.
Change in inflation and minimum wage
In recent days, there has been much speculation that the government would increase the minimum wage in connection with the new inflation forecast for 2025 included in the budget law. We then asked economists whether such a measure was possible for those in power.
– We think so. change in the inflation forecast in the draft state budget compared with the assumptions in the draft state budget of June this year should not result in a change in the level of the minimum wage, compared to the government’s previous proposal of PLN 4,626 gross per month – said Łukasz Kozłowski, chief economist of the Federation of Polish Entrepreneurs, in an interview with Gazeta Prawna.
At that time, trade unionists stated that the national minimum should, however, be changed.
“OPZZ indicated that the Council of Ministers is obliged to determine the minimum wage for the next year in accordance with the provisions of the Minimum Wage Law. Failure to verify the minimum wage with the new inflation forecast may result in its being challenged in proceedings before the Constitutional Court and its unconstitutionality”, they argued.
