Poland’s corporate employment fell by 0.9% year-on-year in March 2026, bringing total employment to 6.39 million. The drop exceeded market expectations of a 0.8% contraction and deepened from the 0.8% decrease recorded in the previous month, marking the 30th consecutive month of declines in corporate employment and still the steepest among the sequence. On a monthly basis, employment fell by 0.1%, following a 0.2% decline in February. Meanwhile, average monthly gross salaries rose by 5.7% compared to a year earlier, reaching PLN 9,652.