More speech pathologists will work in private practices as hospitals and other health care facilities, as well as schools, will contract out for services. Speech pathologists earned a median annual salary of $69,870 and median hourly wages of $33.59 in 2012.
It is a unitary state with 16 administrative subdivisions and Warsaw as its capital city. Poland is a representative democracy, with the country ranking among the most peaceful countries in the world. The president of Poland heads the state with the government centered on the Cabinet. The parliament is made up of both the lower (Sejm) and the upper (Senate) houses.
On August 24, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a Solidarity representative, was elected Prime Minister of Poland, who became the first non-communist prime minister in Eastern Europe for almost four decades. By the end of the month, a Solidarity-led coalition government was formed. In December 1990, Walesa was elected president.