07-05-2025
Polish workers in the UK earn more than Britons
Polish workers in the UK now earn more than native Britons having gradually closed the wage gap in the 20 years since migrants from eastern Europe first came to Britain en masse.
Poland was among ten countries to join the European Union in May 2004, leading to a surge in immigration to Britain, which was then also a member of the bloc.
By 2014, there were just under two million EU migrants living in Britain, about half of whom came from Poland.
Payroll data from that year shows that Poles, on average, earned 15 per cent less than native Britons and migrants most commonly found work in industries such as construction, hospitality and agriculture, which may not require fluency in English.
The latest data, however,
