Cultural and creative industries in 2024
A
A
A
In 2024, there were 143.7 thousand enterprises classified as cultural and creative industries. The number of employed persons amounted to 281.0 thousand (an increase by 18.7%), and the average paid employment amounted to 96.5 thousand full-time jobs (an increase by 4.3%). The average gross monthly wages and salaries1 amounted to PLN 9,193. Increase of both number of persons employed and average paid employment was recorded only for micro-companies2.
Cultural and creative industries are the part of non-financial enterprises, separated according to specific PKD classes. These are economic entities engaged in mass production and sale of cultural and creative goods and services. Cultural industries produce cultural goods and services based on copyright, using industrial production techniques, and these are primarily: the publishing industry, the phonographic industry, TV, radio, the film industry and creating computer games. Creative industries are made up of entities whose activities are primarily related to design, architecture, advertising and translations – culture serves here as a source of inspiration and a creative contribution.
1Calculated per full-time jobs.
2Micro-enterprises – entities with 9 or fewer employees.
