An important factor determining the choice of an employer, which also influences the motivation of employees, is the remuneration offered. Not every employee receives the expected remuneration for the work performed in Poland, and these expectations may result from a number of different factors. The aim of the article is to present the financial expectations of employees in Poland. The author wanted to verify the compliance of expectations with market rates and to identify the relationship between the financial expectations of employees in Poland and independent variables such as gender, generation, education, voivodeship, industry, and place of residence. The goal was achieved by analyzing Statistics Poland’s reports on salaries and conducting empirical research that identified the financial expectations of Polish employees. Research using the diagnostic survey method using the CAWI technique on a sample of 384 Polish residents was carried out in December 2020. Then, statistical analyses were performed using the χ2 test. The conducted research shows that not all employees in Poland have a chance to meet their financial expectations, which is related to the diversity of salaries in individual voivodeships. In addition, the research revealed a relationship between the financial expectations of Poles and the level of education, the industry in which employees operate, and the place of residence – the size of the town/city. However, no correlation was found between financial expectations and the sex of the respondents, generation affiliation, and the voivodeship in which the respondents lived.