Prices in Poland 🇵🇱
What 7 everyday items cost in Poland, shown in US dollars, in PLN, and as roughly how long someone earning the average local wage works to buy one.
Poland is among the cheapest EU countries in the game while having wages well above the global median, which makes its work-time figures unusually good. The złoty floats independently of the euro, so Polish prices move against eurozone neighbours from year to year.
What things cost
| Item | USD | Local | Work time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Mac | $6.25 | 22.7 PLN | 47 min |
| Coca-Cola (330ml can) | $1.47 | 5.99 PLN | 11 min |
| Cappuccino | $3.82 | 14.29 PLN | 29 min |
| Milk (1 litre) | $1.06 | 3.97 PLN | 8 min |
| Eggs (dozen) | $3.65 | 13.65 PLN | 27 min |
| Apples (1 kg) | $1.19 | 4.45 PLN | 9 min |
| Gasoline (1 litre) | $1.63 | 6.1 PLN | 12 min |
Local-currency figures are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates, except the Big Mac, which is published in local currency by The Economist and converted the other way. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage — the roughest number on this page. See methodology.
How Poland compares
Relative to the rest of the game, Poland is most expensive for big mac, where it ranks 12th out of 33 countries at $6.25 — against a global median of $5.69.
It is relatively cheapest for apples at $1.19, which is 32nd of 32 — only 0 countries in the game are cheaper.
Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is big mac, at roughly 47 minutes of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently — that gap is usually the more interesting number.
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