Poland
Latest Average Wage
+16.4% · 5 years
$49,074
Country Comparison
Poland vs Canada
Compare average wages, long-term wage changes and eight consumer price categories using OECD data.
At a Glance
Poland
vs
Canada
$49,0742025
Latest Average Wage
Canada +38.4%
(vs Poland)
$67,9012025
+16.4%2025
5-Year Wage Change
Poland +16.6 pts
(vs Canada)
−0.3%2025
+42.0%2025
10-Year Wage Change
Poland +37.0 pts
(vs Canada)
+5.0%2025
45.72024
Overall Price Level
Canada +40.3 index points
(vs Poland)
862024
Wages are PPP-adjusted average annual wages; price levels use the United States reference of 100. Years shown are each country's latest reported observation.
How Wages Have Changed
Follow PPP-adjusted average annual wages in constant prices across both economies.
USD PPP, constant prices · missing years shown as gaps, never interpolated
Canada
Latest Average Wage
−0.3% · 5 years
$67,901
Wage Milestones
Poland
10 Years Ago
$34,551 (2015)
Historical Peak
$49,074 (2025)
Latest Wage
$49,074 (2025)
Canada
10 Years Ago
$64,667 (2015)
Historical Peak
$68,434 (2021)
Latest Wage
$67,901 (2025)
Compare Everyday Price Levels
See how eight consumer price categories compare with the United States reference value of 100.
United States = 100 · Differences shown in index points
Poland (POL)Canada (CAN)
Overall
−40.3 index points
100
45.7vs86
Food
−33.5 index points
100
74.5vs108
Clothing
−26.8 index points
100
91.2vs118
Housing
−55.4 index points
100
27.7vs83.1
Health
−32.9 index points
100
29.3vs62.2
Transport
−21.1 index points
100
81.9vs103
Recreation
−33.9 index points
100
58.1vs92
Restaurants & Accommodation
−20.4 index points
100
77.2vs97.6
What Stands Out
01
Latest Wage Gap
Canada's latest average wage is $67,901 for 2025, about 38.4% higher than Poland's $49,074 for 2025 — a percentage worked out directly from the two reported figures. Per year, that works out to roughly $18,827 on the shared purchasing-power basis.
02
Stronger Recent Trend
On the latest one-year change, Poland shows the stronger movement at +4.6%, against +0.2% for Canada. The five-year horizon keeps the same ordering: +16.4% against −0.3%. Both percentages are real, PPP-adjusted changes from the reported wage series.
03
Largest Price Gap
Housing shows the widest price gap of the comparable categories in 2024: 27.7 for Poland against 83.1 for Canada. That is a separation of 55.4 index points on the US=100 scale, with Canada on the higher side and Poland on the lower one. The gap is stated in index points, which are not interchangeable with percentages.
04
Closest Price Category
The closest category is Restaurants & Accommodation: Poland reads 77.2 and Canada 97.6 for 2024, just 20.4 index points apart on the US=100 scale. The next closest is Transport at 21.1 index points apart. Closeness here describes the index readings only, not the baskets behind them.
Understanding the Comparison
Wage Position
Canada holds a clear wage lead in this pairing: $67,901 for 2025, against Poland's $49,074 for 2025. The higher figure exceeds the lower one by 38.4% in relative terms — a percentage calculated from the two reported values — or roughly $18,827 a year. No extra conversion is needed here: each figure is already a purchasing-power-adjusted annual amount in constant prices. For scale, neither series has moved by that much within any single reported year, so the gap is structural rather than the product of one unusual observation. Over ten years Poland recorded +42.0% and Canada +5.0%, so the two series have been moving in the same long-term direction.
Wage Direction
The two wage series do not point the same way across the reported horizons. Poland sits at the highest point of its series — $49,074 in 2025 is also the historical peak, with a ten-year change of +42.0%. Canada stands just below its historical high of $68,434 in 2021, only 0.8% away, with a ten-year change of +5.0%. The five-year changes — +16.4% for Poland, −0.3% for Canada — resist a single-trend summary and are clearer read side by side. Each percentage is a real, PPP-adjusted change; nominal pay movements are outside what this dataset reports.
Price Profile
Poland's overall consumer price level for 2024 reads 45.7, and Canada's reads 86, each measured against the United States reference of 100. One side of this pairing dominates the price profile: Canada sits higher in 8 of the 8 comparable categories. Housing separates the two most: Poland reads 27.7 and Canada 83.1, 55.4 index points apart. The two sit closest in Restaurants & Accommodation (77.2 versus 97.6), only 20.4 index points apart. Counted against the US reference of 100, 0 of Poland's 8 reported categories sit above the line, against 3 of Canada's 8. These are index values for 2024, not currency amounts; categories without a reported value on either side are left out of the comparison.
Wage and price data should not be combined into a verdict on which country is better to live in.
