In January 2026, the median monthly gross wage and salary decreased by 5.8% in nominal terms compared with December 2025, whilst it increased by 8.2% compared with January 2025.

In the 2025/26 school year, 6.7 million children, youth and adults were enrolled in pre-primary establishments, primary schools, post-primary and post-secondary schools (0.5% fewer than in the previous year), accounting for 17.9% of Poland’s population. In the Polish education system, pre-primary education is provided in nursery schools, pre-primary sections in primary schools, pre-primary education units and pre-primary centres. In the 2025/26 school year, there were 21.9 thousand pre-primary establishments (1.8% fewer than a year earlier), attended by 1362.1 thousand children (6.2% fewer).

In Poland, in the first quarter of 2026, an increase in the prices of residential premises of 2.3% was recorded compared to the fourth quarter of 2025.

We are pleased to present this publication containing the results of the experimental study ‘Diversity of occupations in the labour market in Poland’. This study was produced in response to the growing demand for information on the characteristics of the occupational structure of the Polish labour market and constitutes an important complement to the analyses conducted to date in this area.