PLN 7,036 for a medical caregiver. Pay rises from July 1?

The lowest wages in healthcare are to increase from 1 July 2025. According to the act, the new rates are calculated as the product of the work coefficient and the average wage for 2024, which – as reported by the Central Statistical Office – amounted to PLN 8,181.72. This means higher wages for medical caregivers, among others.

However, on June 5, Health Minister Izabela Leszczyna announced a possible change in the regulations .

– I will talk to the tripartite team so that we can change the regulation that was invented by someone who has no idea about public finances at all – she said in an interview with Polsat News.

A possible change would mean a postponement of the indexation date and thus a six-month freeze on the growth of the lowest wages in the public health care system.

Today, a medical assistant is classified in the pay table to a group where the coefficient is 0.86 and the minimum wage is PLN 6,153.71 gross:

1. Another employee performing a medical profession other than the one indicated in no. 1–6 with the required secondary education and a medical caregiver (0.86) - PLN 6,153.71.
2. After July 1, 2025, the salary of caregivers will increase by PLN 882.57 to PLN 7,036.28 gross per month.

From 1 July 2025, the minimum wages in healthcare will be (gross amounts):

• Physician or dentist with specialization (work coefficient 1.45) - today: PLN 10,375.45; after July 1, 2025: PLN 11,863.49 (increase by PLN 1,488.04)
• Pharmacist, physiotherapist, laboratory diagnostician, clinical psychologist, other employee performing a medical profession other than indicated in no. 1, 3 and 4 with the required higher education at the master's level and specialization, nurse with a professional title of master of nursing or midwife with a master's degree in midwifery with the required specialization in the field of nursing or in a field applicable in health care (1.29) - today: PLN 9,230.57, after July 1, 2025: PLN 10,554.42 (an increase of PLN 1,323.85)
• Physician or dentist, without specialization (1.19) - today: PLN 8,515.02. from July 1: PLN 9,736.25 (an increase of PLN 1,221.23)
• Trainee (0.95) - PLN 7,772.63 (an increase of PLN 974.92)
• Pharmacist, physiotherapist, laboratory diagnostician, nurse, midwife, electroradiology technician, psychologist, other employee performing a medical profession other than the one indicated in no. 1-4 with the required higher education at the master's level; nurse, midwife with the required higher education (first-cycle studies) and specialization, or nurse, midwife with secondary education and specialization

  (1.02) - today: PLN 7,298.59, from July 1 PLN 8,345.35 (an increase of PLN 1,046.76)

• Physiotherapist, nurse, midwife, paramedic, electroradiology technician, other employee performing a medical profession other than indicated in no. 1–5 with required higher education at the level of first-cycle studies; physiotherapist, paramedic, medical analysis technician, electroradiology technician with required secondary education or nurse or midwife with required secondary education who does not hold a specialist title in the field of nursing or a field applicable in health care (0.94) - today: PLN 6,726.15, from July 1: PLN 7,690.82 (an increase of PLN 964.67)
• Another employee performing a medical profession other than the one indicated in no. 1–6 with the required secondary education and a medical caregiver (0.86) - today: PLN 6,153.71; from July 1: PLN 7,036.28 (an increase of PLN 882.57)
• Employee of the basic activity, other than an employee performing a medical profession with the required higher education (1) - today: PLN 7,155.48, from July 1: PLN 8,181.72 (an increase of PLN 1,026.24)
• Employee of the basic activity, other than an employee performing a medical profession with the required secondary education (0.78) - today: PLN 5,581.27, from July 1: PLN 6,381.74 (an increase of PLN 800.47)
• Employee of the basic activity, other than an employee performing a medical profession with the required education below secondary level (0.65) - today: PLN 4,651.06, from July 1: PLN 5,318.12 (an increase of PLN 667.06)

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