Study / Schools to learn Polish language in Poznań? [11]

I think you need to know Polish in order to study it. Otherwise you can just learn, but not as a student.

Work / Living in Katowice (programmer, 3000 PLN) - is it enough? [65]

I was asking about Sweden, not Poland. I was referring to "highly skilled jobs are scarce as I have applied many times there." I thought that you're talking about something technical, but you studied Massmedia and Communication.

Work / Living in Katowice (programmer, 3000 PLN) - is it enough? [65]

I am curious what education and experience do you have, that you cannot find normal job in Sweden? And are you Swedish, or expat as you have written?

Work / Living in Katowice (programmer, 3000 PLN) - is it enough? [65]


If one can keep his European salary there, then temporary assignment to India could be a great adventure in my opinion.

Work / Living in Katowice (programmer, 3000 PLN) - is it enough? [65]

That's good to know that their tactic of employing foreigners for less than minimum salary in their home countries works.

Work / Possibilities of working in Warsaw for an Industrial design engineer? [2]

pl.jobrapido.com/?w=3d&fh=1
pracuj.pl/praca/3d;kw
gumtree.pl/fp-oferty-pracy/3d/c8?isSearchForm=true

You can contact some foreign companies directly too. Don't expect that it will be easy to find a job here without knowledge of Polish language. There are many graduates who are ready to do design work for minimum salary.

Work / Teaching at a Polish University - PHD required? or being a foreigner enough ;) [45]

@Lenka: Such discussion has no point.

Life / Quality of life in major cities in Poland - cost, culture, work and modernization [11]


No. Here you have map of sun in Poland: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/SolarGIS-Sola r-map-Poland-pl.png But differences are very small. More obvious, when you look at map of Europe: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolacja#mediaviewer/Plik:SolarGIS -Solar-map-Europe-en.png

Differences between northern vs southern countries is much more obvious than between northern and southern Poland


Yes. surprisingly big capital has less pollution than smaller Wrocław. When you care about health, perhaps you will consider Gdańsk too :) It's not bad for IT jobs and has the clearest air:

Here in comparison to few European cities:


The newest report confirms that Wrocław has a little bit higher average than Kraków:

programistamag.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/tabela.png
programistamag.pl/ile-zarabiaja-programisci/

here just Java: programistamag.pl/ile-zarabiaja-programisci-java/

Life / Quality of life in major cities in Poland - cost, culture, work and modernization [11]


No, it's just too small statistical sample to be very reliable. When you look at the biggest job portal: pracuj.pl/praca/programista:


Then mazowieckie with Warsaw is 1st, then dolnośląskie with Wrocław 2nd. małopolskie with Kraków 3rd. 4th is śląskie with Gliwice - the part of Katowice metropolitan area. Quite bad ratio, considering, that it's around 3mln people (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katowice_urban_area )

It reflects what I've heard that Warsaw is the best for jobs, then Wrocław and 3rd Kraków. ( Although this little old report shows higher earnings in Kraków -

When comparing these cities look at outdoor activities too. Kraków is close too high rocky mountains, Wrocław is not far away from mountains, but they're not rocky there. Warsaw is away from any sea or mountains. In summer people go from Warsaw to Mazurian lakes. (if you like mosquitos). From Wrocław you can go for a weekend to Prague (5h with a cheap bus). From Kraków it's 7h to Vienna with not so cheap train. Warsaw has 5:30 with not so cheap train to Berlin, 3h cheap train to Kraków and if they finish renovation of rail line in 2016 - 3h expensive train to Baltic Sea:

I was curious how it looks in other job portals. So here is popular free one: gumtree.pl/fp-programisci-informatyka-i-internet/c9005


Here Kraków has more adds than Wrocław. Śląskie is even worse than in previous website.

1 more thought. You entitled this topic "Quality of life", so it's important to add that Kraków has one of the highest air pollution in Europe during winter.

Life / Quality of life in major cities in Poland - cost, culture, work and modernization [11]

look at numbeo.com to see prices. Basically only rent prices and perhaps commuting will differ between these cities. As for number of IT companies just look at any job portal. For example here is number of offers in a website for programmers:


4programmers.net/Praca

These 3 first cities have similar number of job offers per inhabitant. Meaning Warszawa has the most because it is the biggest.

Weather it's worth to live in Warsaw instead of Wrocław or Kraków depends on how big apartment you need. When you rent something smaller, then difference in prices is only small percentage of your income - lower than difference in pay between Warsaw and Wrocław/Kraków. When you need something bigger, then all what you will gain from earning more in Warsaw can be just enough to cover higher rent. When you like old styled cities then Wrocław or Kraków, when more modern then Warsaw. In Warsaw you are more likely to meet other foreigners. It's important if you don't speak Polish.

Life / Quality of life in major cities in Poland - cost, culture, work and modernization [11]

Generally Warsaw has the best salaries, but you should look personally, meaning see what offers you get from where. Some people like Warsaw, other hate.

Work / Teaching at a Polish University - PHD required? or being a foreigner enough ;) [45]


25 x 4000 per year and in small collage in half year = 25 x 4000 x 2 per year is 200 000 PLN. Is that what you're saying?

Work / Teaching at a Polish University - PHD required? or being a foreigner enough ;) [45]

This Clifford Bates has PhD and big enough experience to get professor position in Warsaw University. georgiejones said about a person without PhD.

Law / Citizenship of Poland can be obtained through the blood line but my ancestor could lose it in the past [45]


They also mention that those Jews had to renounce their Polish citizenship, but now that renouncing is considered illegal, so ineffective.

Work / Teaching at a Polish University - PHD required? or being a foreigner enough ;) [45]

Link his facebook profile or hasn't happened :)

Work / Teaching at a Polish University - PHD required? or being a foreigner enough ;) [45]

I've heard that South America is much better place for that.

Work / Living in Katowice (programmer, 3000 PLN) - is it enough? [65]

Check this recent post. It's about job in Katowice too: https://polishforums.com/work/poland-job-offer-giant-katowice-unix-70817/ basically it's average job. You should survive if you haven't worked before in western Europe.

Law / Citizenship of Poland can be obtained through the blood line but my ancestor could lose it in the past [45]


Two posters contributing to this topic were banned, so I guess nobody will help you. Note, that sometimes it's worth to start sentence with capital letter. Perhaps you could find some professionals helping in this matter in google: google.de/search?q=pomoc+prawna+w+uzyskaniu+polskiego+obywatelstwa

Law / Can a Polish resident card holder leave for Iraq from another Schengen country other than Poland? [7]

then better ask them

Law / Can a Polish resident card holder leave for Iraq from another Schengen country other than Poland? [7]

Do you have some legal text supporting that? Because what's the difference if the exit stamp is from Poland or another Schengen country? They have information how much time you spent in Schengen, otherwise they wouldn't know if someone overstays permitted time.

Work / Teaching at a Polish University - PHD required? or being a foreigner enough ;) [45]

Problem is that they don't employ new people at all. It's the time of demographic low and private schools are being closed and some specialties in public universities too. Theoretically one can work with Master only, but for minimum salary as assistant only. Foreign diplomas (master and PhD) are treated worse. If from out of EU, then could even be not recognized. Except perhaps if you're already full professor.

Work / Job offer from IT Giant in Katowice, Poland (UNIX specialist). Information on tax and rental costs needed. [65]


They're from the west so they spend more. It's easy to spend as much as you earn, doesn't matter how much it is. It's easy to adjust your spending (increase) to higher salary, but not so easy other direction. That's why Poles can easily rise family of 4 with 5000 PLN net per month and expats from western countries cannot. Also it's uncommon to rent houses in Poland. Usually people cannot afford to do that and they rent flats or posses house either inherited or bought with savings from abroad or/and mortgage.

Law / Can a Polish resident card holder leave for Iraq from another Schengen country other than Poland? [7]

You can leave from other Schengen country. Why not?

Work / Job offer from IT Giant in Katowice, Poland (UNIX specialist). Information on tax and rental costs needed. [65]

Now I see why people ask about IBM jobs in Katowice. They mentioned in press that IBM is coming to Katowice. IBM got around 13mln zł welcome gift from the government. Not so expensive IMHO, if they employe promised 2000 workers. Then it's just 6500zł per person.


invest.katowice.eu

Moreover IBM, together with HP was involved in the biggest corruption scandal in Polish IT, so perhaps decision makers hope to get this money back in bribes.

Work / Job at HP in Wroclaw, what salary should I expect and Is It negotiable? [29]

I think, that salaries varies a lot depending on foreign language used. What is your girlfriend language?

Law / Taxation system in Poland? My company is cutting 38%!? [25]

Use calculator:
sedlak.pl/Kalkulator_wynagrodzen.html

Just type there gross salary and in next view you will see your NET monthly salary in: Umowa o pracę > Koszty pracownika > Netto (column).

Examples:
1680zł gross = 1237zł net
4000zł gross = 2854zł net
8000zł gross = 5640zł net
15000zł gross = 10518zł net

So as you see net salary is between 74% of gross down to 70% gross in case of high earnings. (That's not so bad, because in Germany it's around 60%)

The difference is:


Foreigner must pay that money, cannot get them back when leaving Poland. Without permanent permit to stay foreigner could take advantage of health and accident insurance, but contributions for retirement found will be wasted except if foreigner decides to retire in European Union.

In some cases foreigner has to pay extra tax at home. That depends on agreements between countries. You're lucky because there is favorable agreement between India and Poland

przepisy.gofin.pl/przepisy,4,15,121,99,,,umowa-miedzy-rzadem-polskiej.html

It says in article 16th that earning of Indian worker in Poland can be taxed in Poland only:



Your employer will be contributing to your insurances too. But that's his extra cost. It's around 20% of gross salary in Poland. It means, that when you get employed for average salary 4000zł gross, it will cost your boss 4824zł. Employer would get only 2853zł of that. That means that total taxation of work in Poland is around 41%. It's possible to lower amount of taxes payed, by working as a contractor:

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umowa_%C5%9Bmieciowa

But that's usually not available for foreigners, because employment status is usually needed in order to get visa.

Law / Taxation system in Poland? My company is cutting 38%!? [25]

It matters how much gross your salary is going to be. Thee are fiew tax levels. Best use online calculator.

Life / Is becoming a Polish national this easy? [16]


It is, but I've guessed right.

Law / TRANSFERING MONEY IN CAD - BEST EXCHANGE RATES? WHICH BANK? [14]


I know that they shouldn't, but perhaps they threat CAD differently and charge for withdrawing them.

Law / TRANSFERING MONEY IN CAD - BEST EXCHANGE RATES? WHICH BANK? [14]

No. Of cash withdrawal. Is it free?