EN
The central wage policy performs many functions in relation to state-owned economic units. One of such functions is the determining of financial resources for wages. Through determining these resources the economic Centre as a calculating unit exerts its influence on a state-owned enterprise as an operational unit. This assumes the form of methods of shaping wage resources, whose detailed variants contain solutions based on the economic calculus of a calculating unit. Such way of perceiving the system of shaping wage resources can be found in the firstpart of the article. Another aim of the article was to determine the impact of central parameters on the economic calculus and wage situation of enterprises. The simulation of basic ratios for 1989 presented in the article should be treated as an illustration of the problem of the functioning of the system according to which wage resources are shaped. This system is characterized by its low effectiveness and that is why its Weaknesses and some directions of its changes are presented in the final conclusions.