Pay transparency in Poland
Partly transposedin force since 24/12/2025
Recruitment-stage pay transparency (Art. 5 of the Directive) has applied since 24 December 2025 via an amendment to the Labour Code. The broader government bill implementing the rest of the Directive (UC127, latest draft dated 29 April 2026) was still at the government consultation stage in October 2026 and is planned to take effect six months after publication, i.e. in 2027 at the earliest.
Draft · legal review pending, not yet published.
Last checked: 10/11/2026. This overview is not legal advice. Laws change; the linked legal text is what counts.
- In force since
- 24/12/2025
- Job ads
- Pay information before the interview. Under Art. 18³ca of the Labour Code, applicants must receive the starting pay or its range (based on objective, gender-neutral criteria), plus relevant collective-agreement or pay-regulation provisions, in writing or electronically: in the job ad, or otherwise before the interview, or at the latest before the employment relationship starts. Publishing the range in the ad is one option, not an obligation. Job ads and job titles must be gender-neutral.
- Asking about previous pay
- Banned by law
- Workers' right to information
- Not yet in force. The pending UC127 draft would let workers request their own pay level and sex-disaggregated average pay for comparable work, with a written reply within a set deadline.
- Pay reporting
- No gender pay gap reporting duty yet. The UC127 draft proposes reporting for employers with 100+ employees, phased as in the Directive (250+ first, 100–149 from 2031).
- Penalties
- No dedicated fine for breaching the recruitment pay-information duty was identified in the Labour Code. Applicants can bring equal-treatment claims; since 5 November 2026 (Act of 19 June 2026, Dz.U. 2026 poz. 1046) compensation for a breach of equal treatment is at least the minimum wage. The UC127 draft proposes fines (reported as PLN 2,000–60,000; not verified against the draft text).
Not verified: Current stage of the UC127 government bill (latest confirmation is secondary, early October 2026: still in government consultation); proposed fine amounts in UC127; whether a breach of Art. 18³ca alone triggers compensation under Art. 18³d.
31% of job ads in Poland state pay
5,941 of 19,075 ads on employer career sites and applicant tracking systems in the last month; 24% for tech-related titles (581 of 2,461). Measured on 11/11/2026 via Active Jobs DB; includes pay read from the ad text.
IT salaries in PolandSources
- Ustawa z dnia 4 czerwca 2025 r. o zmianie ustawy – Kodeks pracy (Dz.U. 2025 poz. 807) · Dziennik Ustaw RP (Government Legislation Centre) · 23/06/2025
- Ustawa z dnia 19 czerwca 2026 r. o zmianie ustawy – Kodeks pracy oraz ustawy – Kodeks postępowania cywilnego (Dz.U. 2026 poz. 1046) · Kancelaria Sejmu / ELI
- EU Pay Transparency Directive: EU member states (Poland) · Pinsent Masons (Out-Law) · 09/07/2026
- Poland pay transparency tracker · Evenpay · 04/11/2026