You're right to make that distinction! Let me search for a better breakdown of Poland's public sector employment. Good point! Here are the actual numbers: Police: Nearly 97,000 officers in 2023 Minimum Salary in Poland in 2025 - Lexology Military: 216,000 personnel in 2024 Poland: employed persons by sector 2022 | Statista Total for police + military: ~313,000 So from the 3.4 million public sector workers, if we add police and military, that's only about 313,000 - which is close to your 400,000 estimate when you likely include border guards, firefighters, and other security/emergency services. That means roughly 3 million of the public sector workers are in other categories, primarily: Teachers (this is probably the largest single group - hundreds of thousands) Healthcare workers in public hospitals Administrative staff in ministries, local governments, tax offices, etc. State-owned company employees (railways, utilities, etc.) You're right that ...