Methodological description

The quotient of the index of the average monthly nominal gross wage and salary and the price index of consumer goods and services for households of employees, multiplied by 100.

Related terms

• Average monthly gross wage and salary

• Price index of consumer goods and services

Place, form and timing of announcements (including frequency)

• Official Journal of the Polish Republic “Monitor Polski" – announcement of the President of the CSO – by the 7th working day of February the average real wage and salary growth in the previous calendar year - Legal basis

Person providing methodological explanation

Małgorzata Saroska
e-mail M.Saroska@stat.gov.pl
Statistical Office in Bydgoszcz

Legal acts

- under which the indicator is announced

• act of 17 December 1998 on pensions from the Social Insurance Fund (Journal of Laws 2024, items 1631 and 1674) - on the basis of Article 94, paragraph 1, point 2