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.
In 1944, a Soviet-backed Polish provisional government was formed which, after a falsified referendum in 1947 took control of the country and Poland became a satellite state of the Soviet Union, as People's Republic of Poland.