Average monthly salary in Poland is around 1000 PLN (few hundred bucks).

Oh come now! Those flashcards don't sell themselves you know.

The average monthly salary in Poland is 3433,32 zł in July (source: GUS - that's the main statisics office in Poland). End of story!

Gross probably

Of course. Who gives the net in this circumstances? Gros never changes, but net can change according to e.g. kind of your contract.

Stranger things have happened, Olaf ;) ;)

Olaf wrote:


when i first came to Poland over 3.5 years ago, I had a 35 sq. meter apt. about 10 minutes from the market square, i was paying 1280zl per month.

3433,32 zl - tax - ZUS.....half your monthly wage for rent sounds about right, no?

I think so. But this number is the most recent one. Not sure how it was 3.5 year ago, but most probably you're right

Yes, but most people don't live in such a locality - and I doubt that the flat was unfurnished, either. It's simply not a good comparison to compare what a foreigner pays for rental costs versus what a Polish person might pay. Also, it's quite normal for single Poles to share a house or flat, just like they do in most European countries - so your figure would actually be more like 640zl a month - or about a quarter of your income on rent. Which really isn't much money at all.

So - wrong again.

couples share apartments in Poland,this is not normal. Its the f0cking Walton's over there for many.
so the average wage in Poland is now Gross 215 euro so that 175 euro a week.. Is this true??

That's normal if one partner is staying at home and trying to become an "internet entrepreneur" rather than actually going to work for a living.

However, given that you can get a studio flat in Poznan for 700zl in a reasonable locality, there's no need for any professional couple to share a flat with anyone. I know plenty of professional single people who can afford a good life and they own their own place. But that's because they went to a good university and studied hard and now work hard, instead of staying at home and calling strangers off the internet to be abusive.


Sure. But the cost of living is much lower in general. I've been absolutely abusing the electricity over the last two months - my bill? 200zl. Or 50 euro for 2 months. 25 euro a month for electricity? Peanuts.

Sounds like you don't get around to traveling much. Poland is advanced developing economy, as opposed to most stagnant economies in the "West". I guess once you grasp that, it all makes sense.

For most foreigners, Poland is dirt cheap. Some of them just have no marketable skills and end up washing out. Most Poles already have it figured out, so housing isn't that much of a concern.

Just out of curiosity, what's your connection to Poland? Planning on moving over?

Not when it comes to rent and petrol and buying cars and clothes and anything electronic.
Although i do think that here in Ireland for the last 15 years we just have it too easy(but not for much longer) and comparing it with Poland is a bad comparison. Unless your a consumer junky you will live the life of luxury here, even if on the dole, unless you are one of the many who fell for that bu11shit and bought during the property bubble and are now up to your neck in the sh1t.

Things in Poland in my view are so bad that they can only get better.

delphiandomine wrote:


haha, this is such a funny statement. i mean, it's the summer and you don't have A/C in your apartment....how exactly are you "absolutely abusing" your electricity? haha, do you put on strobe light shows at night or own 14 refridgerators or something? hahaha.

curious.

Wrong again.

I've actually got two A/C units - fair enough, it's not quite the American level of having it all integrated, but what's the point when they're only used for three months a year, and even then, they're only used when it's unbearable.

Sorry Fuzzy, but some of us actually can afford to shell out 1000zl on A/C units and afford the electricity bill (not that it's much) :)


Yes, I supopse when your wife earns about 1500zl netto and you have a child and rent to pay, life is tough, especially when you can't claim any Polish unemployment benefits.

As I've already explained to you, rent is affordable to the average Polish person. Cars? Insurance is ridiculously cheap here. Cars are cheap enough, especially if you buy from Germany. Clothes? I saw a shop selling clothes for 1zl/kg - that doesn't strike me as "expensive". But I guess that for the average American bum sitting in a squalid flat in Krakow because he doesn't work and his wife is too stupid to earn well, these things are expensive.

It's lucky that our mutual friend Mark didn't buy when prices were bubble high. He'd be even more screwed now if he had. He might even have to go out and get a job rather than pimping his wife out! Lucky he never had the cash to buy. What about you Milky, what was your reason for not buying?

Delphiandomine wrote:


what?

Delphiandomine wrote:


you said you have been "abusing" your electricity and using it constantly for the past 2 months. you then said that you only use your A/C when it's "unbearable". so weather in Poland over the past 2 months has been "unbearable"?

Delphiandomine wrote:


it still amazes me that you continue to comment on my income level. what a child. i could talk about what's inside my apt. too, but that would be stooping to your level.

Delphiandomine wrote:


funny you should mention paying rent, pappy. being you don't pay rent, i wonder what you spent that money on this summer....OH, right right. Two A/C units.

Delphiandomine wrote:


i suggest you watch yourself. you're offensive enough with your constant personal attacks on this forum, but when you start slinging mud at posters' wives and children, you're entering another realm and this is certainly not the first time I've seen you do it.

Delphiandomine wrote:


This has got to be one of the most pathetic things I've ever seen you write.

It's responses like this that should remind everyone on this forum that you are completely full of hot air, not to mention so unbelievably bias that you're willing to write anything to make your precious Poland look better than what it is. I don't know if it's denial or if you're just plain dillusional, or maybe so completely out of options in life that the only way you can feel OK in your own skin is to create this artificial world around you......I just don't know.....

The property bubble

I'd say that those that moved to Poland in 2004 and bought a flat then are doing very well for themselves in terms of equity in the property.

I'm English moved to krakow 8 months ago after having enough of england and the fact that the property ladder was impossible to climb i bought a small flat in the center 4 years ago i now have 3 flats a warehouse and a detached house in the country side my wife is polish and also works its true what people say if you studied hard and work hard then poland is very easy to make money and live well if you were a twat and spend your school years drinking vodka in the forest then pissed away your free university time then no wonder you cant afford much much better than england where you can end up with more expendible income by claiming from the state this country doesent award stupidity it has a class structure where if your stupid you get f@ck all which in my book is the way it should be

good man, does she help you count your money as well.

Hi to all, I have a question? Is it possible to move and work in Poland if I do not speak the language. I mean - can I find a job, if I know only English and German, and I am woking in the accounting and finance sphere? Is there really possible to move, and a firm to take me and to make career and business, as of course I strart learn Polish when I start a job? And actually how earn the people in the accouting and consulting firms, e.g. Big Four? 10x in advance fo rteh answer :)

It is almost imposible because of several reasons. At least because of high unemployment rate and nepotism.

Is it really so bad, I mean I have 3 years in one of the Big 4 and the only drawback from my point of view is the language... I am from Eastern Europe, maybe I could learn it fast... Is it really so complicated? And how many could I earn as accountant or as support in a finance department? 10x

As an accountant you will be work among the wolves. Are you prepared for that not knowing local rules? Accountant should be swój człowiek

I am experienced in reporting under IFRS requiremets and all kinds of reportings- e.g. for the purposes of a parent copanies that have subsidiaries..., such things, and by "swój człowiek" you mean to be local, or you mean to be with connections, to know somebody?10x And how many could be my salary in EUR?10x

To be local. They have trust you.


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Hi karuindia

I am really confused by reading these posts.
U must b in Poland ryt now.
I am also an aspirant of WUT in Power Engineering.
Can u plz help me about the real scene...

Net median salaries in Poland:

PS. median means that half of people is getting less, and second half is getting more.

so whats the average monthly salary in Poland as in 2010, is it expected to increase in 2011

the minimum wage set by the gov. is $ 2.5 an hour in Poland… making the big bucks.