Interestingly, a similar relationship exists in the salary status of persons in managerial positions. According to GUS, the situation of young women in managerial positions is especially unfavourable. They receive only 58 percent of the salaries of their older female colleagues in a similar occupational position. After that, more or less from the 5 th to the 20 th year of work, wages rise very slowly. Only in the final period of occupational activity do salaries start rising quickly once again.
Education has a big influence on how much people earn.
People with primary or vocational education earn only 55 percent of what persons with college and university decrees do. Experts are of the opinion that this difference in Poland is still too small in comparison with the western countries, where persons with higher education are much better rewarded with high salaries.