19.52% - retirement insurance(half by you, half by the company you are working at) - ponzi scheme, it is collapsing now - you won't get any of that money back.
8% - rent insurance(1.5% you, 6.5% company)
2.45% - sickness insurance (all by you)
0.67% to 3.86% - accident insurance
9% - health insurance(1.25% you, 7.75% comes from income tax)
2.45% - work fund(all by company)
0.1% - another work fund(all by company)

now income tax
below 85525 pln yearly - 18%
above that - 18% of 85525 AND 32% of the rest

so total:
60.09 - lowest accident insurance
63.28 - highest accident insurance
that is assuming 18% income tax

now there is also a VAT - 23% - you have to pay that with every transaction - including resale of used goods!

with VAT added: from 83.09% to 86.28% of our earnings in here is taken by taxes.
Some of those taxes are paid by your employer - but realistically speaking - it will be taken out of your earnings.

Glory to the godly Polish taxes.



increasing minimum wages seems like a dumb idea - no one will get any bit richer - it will just lower the value of the currency - everyone knows that min wages are up + employers will have to pay more -> so they have to earn more somewhere else -> price rise.

Lowering minimum wages won't help that much either - i doubt that prices will go down, due to typical human greed - people were ready to pay for it that much so why lower the price? At least in here prices tend to just rise - despite lowering the costs. It might be different in more capitalist country like USA though.

Abolishing minimum wages doesn't seem like a good idea too - if employer can hire one person to do the job for, lets say 7.5$/h or hire two people to do the same job, for half of that 7.5$/hr - the 2 ppl will get the job obviously, because they will be doing in a bit faster. With no minimum wages same amount of cash would be just spread out on more people.


the key is to find a balance(Y will hate me for that, but fuck him :P) - set minimum wages as low as possible to prevent exploitation of employee - and set it as high as possible so it won't increase the overall prices of goods.


also - i suck at anything related to economy so i might be wrong.