Warsaw Employment Falls by 3,800 as May Gross Pay Drops 4.9%

2 articles · Updated · ceo.com.pl · Jul 1

Warsaw enterprises employed 1.106 million full-time equivalent workers in May, down 3,800 from April and 6,000 from a year earlier, while registered unemployment rose by 311 to 22,615.
PLN 11,204.68 average gross monthly pay was 4.9% lower than in April, mainly because construction, industry and trade pay retreated after bonus-boosted April payouts, though wages still rose 6.9% year on year.
1.6% registered unemployment held steady from April but was up from 1.4% a year earlier; Warsaw still posted the lowest rate among Poland's large cities, versus 4.5% in Mazowieckie and 5.9% nationwide.
1,618 job offers reached Warsaw labour offices in May, equal to 42.3% of all offers in the voivodeship, leaving 17 unemployed people per offer compared with 26 regionally.
Since June 2025, new labour-market registration rules have changed how unemployed people and job offers are recorded, limiting direct comparability with data from earlier periods.