Cost of Living, Average Salaries and Job sites in Poland

@Pushbike

A public school or Esl? That seems really quite low for Warsaw, my sister-in-law is a public school teacher and she earns 5,000 Zloty netto and I'm an ESL teacher and I earn between 250-400 Zlotty per day, depending on how many lessons. Are you newly qualified?

Regards

I work at a private school on umowa o dzielo. My av. salary is about 3700 brutto. I have applied for other jobs but they seem to offer less money. I qualified 18 months ago and have no fixed hours. I work unsociable hours and between 5-30 lesson hours a week depending on the time of year. I won awards for the best oberved lesson and highest scoring teacher from students as well so if you have some job ops let me know. :-)

Hi Guys ...

I can see there are several questions like mine in this thread. As I am unable to relate my family size and salary to those, I am posting mine here. It will be great if one of you can reply to this and help me !

I will be relocating to Wroclaw soon. I have been offered 11K PLN gross per month. My wife and a 2 year old kids will be joining with me. How good is this salary for the 3 of us ? Will I be able to spend, save and have an above average life style with this salary in Wroclaw ?

Cheers !

I agree with you according to the salary

But only in the month when she receives the annual 13 salary. :):):):):):)

In my case - March. Then my earnings in a public school are much higher than your sister`s. :):):):):)

so like......communism?


literally that much higher.....or relative to salary, that much higher? are we talking about the same exact products?

if gas in Poland is 6zl per liter......it's at least 18zl per liter in Denmark?

gas in Denmark is about the same as in Poland

And minimum wage is 5 times higher than Poland

again, relative to what? euro is worth 4 times more than zloty.

trying to get to the bottom of this......

and in Ireland 4 times higher

after hearing about the ridiculous tax rates in Denmark and how everything is insanely expensive there, who cares how much more minimum wage is? it's all relative to the cost of things you have no choice but to buy like food, housing, clothing, transportation, medical insurance, etc.

i can't really read posts about how much more one country pays than the other when in the next breath, someone posts that a car is over 200% its normal cost or something.

Where I live, minimum wage is $7.25/hr (that's for a high school kid working at McDonald's) but you can buy a car for what it's worth and there's no VAT, food is cheap, gas is cheap (relative to the rest of the world), real estate is cheap, so if I told you how much an avg. office worker earned in my city, it would have a different meaning (and would probably be far less than in Denmark for the same job).

There you can find a lot of examples about the insane prices in DK

portal.foreignersindenmark.dk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=3142&PN=1&SID=79538b6638ez2ac776c1c2z6zzedafea

this is neo-communism.

they take 62% of your income, regardless of what you may think about it and then anything else you might want, they make it practically unattainable by inflating the hell out of the prices.

i could never ever live in a country like that. besides, it's cold as $hit there.

That would explain why UK and Ireland are flooded with Danish immigrants.

A paradise at the first glance.Not really as it seems to me that you listed all pros and skipped all cons.Minimum wage is a minimum wage and people work for minimum wage not only at McDonalds and you know very well that life on minimum wage is not life but a vegetation.Lets talk health insurance or a cost of dentist visit ($280 just for pulling the tooth out,here goes your weekly minimum wage),take a 20 miles ride in an ambulance (2 weeks of your minimum wage) or better yet spend 1 (one) day in a hospital for at least 20 (twenty) weeks of your minimum wage.I also don't believe there is no tax when you are buying a car as even in "tax free" Delaware I had to pay like 4% or something.

So? You should be happy about this, majority is well educated and helps generate GNP for those countries.

Hi
I am being offered around 12000 PLN Gross per month.
I will be relocating to Warsaw with my wife and two kids. I dont drink, but I smoke and lead a very simple life.
What would be my saving potential, and would I be able to lead an above average life style as rightly asked by 'relocateWroclaw'.

Please guide me.

Thanks.

On that salary you'll live like a Lord's bastard. Your kids will also save money because of the cheaper cigarettes when they start to smoke.

Dessie could learn a thing or two from you!

(still laughing at the thought of living like a Lord's bastard!)

Thanks friends!
can you give me an idea of what is ZUS? is this a tax ? If so what is the percentage?

Hi,

I need help.. I got a job offer as an Accounts Payable Junior Specialist in Krakow but I will like to know what is the average salary for this position. Can someone please help me? They need someone fluent in English and Spanish with a Bachelor degree and I have all of these requirements.

Thank you.

for a Pole with no language ability it would start around 2300 gross

For someone with fluent english then 3000.

No idea what fluent Spanish adds to that but could be another 1000 or even more.

Would it really give so much more these days with Spanish becoming ridiculously common as a third language, especially in Krakow with so many foreigners there?

They want someone very fluent in Spanish, actually the name of the position is Accounts Payable Junior Specialist with Spanish, and this is my first language and English my second. I don't speak Polish but they told me that wasn't going to be a problem as everyone in the company speak English. Is 4000 zl good enough to live in Krakow? Is is a good salary or a low one?

I know the problem with no speaking Polish will be outside the company at the moment of reading signs, names of the stores, etc but I will look forward to take Polish classes. Does a lot of people speak English or Spanich in Krakow?

I do all my work on my computer and can live anywhere I want with a decent internet connection. I was thinking how much, minimum, I would have to spend per month in a more fun city like Warsaw or Krakow?

I am no big spender, do most of my cooking myself and go out drinking just a few times a month.

still don't see the Danish flooding Ireland /UK and if they did, are you insinuating that the majority would not be highly educated? The Finish education system, not as good as Polish?

in my opinion everything depends on situation for expample study cost is more cheaper in Poland than in Finland studyfun.pl/study_cost Cost of living for study in Poland</a>

To put it in perspective. When my wife and I were living in Poland our combined income after tax was around 11,000zl, with no rent/morgage plus no children.

We were able to live a decent lifestyle and have about 4 holidays a year and save.
Example of weekly expenses
food 300zl
petrol 150zl
taxi 50zl
dvds/cinema 100zl
ciggys 80zl
350zl booze, partying, eating out, clothes
150zl swimming, gym, tanning, massage, nails, hair
120zl extras

so about 1300zl a week. Neither of us had corporate jobs we both taught English and I did some consultant work for a few Polish companies.

Currently we are back in the UK and it is killing us financially, neither are we able to live at the same standard as we did in Poland and we both work many more hours.

Living in Surrey in the UK is just extortionate and by the end of the year we should be back in Poland except this time I'm going to commute between Poland and the UK, work solidly for two weeks in England and then have a week off in Poland, so two on, one off.

By doing this we will be able to maintain a very decent lifestyle in Polska, my wife won't have to work. The downside is that we will be separated on rotation but i'm going to buy her a dog to keep her company and she can join the ladies that lunch crowd in Polska.

ok, let's.


if you don't have dental insurance, which would be nobody's fault but your own, maybe it costs that much.


if you don't have health insurance, which would be nobody's fault but your own, ok, it might cost that much.


i'd rather not repeat myself.

I spent 2 full days in the hospital once for food poisoning. final cost? $50, which is an average copay for someone being admitted to the ER with health insurance.


oh, the nerve! a country that expects you to pay tax when buying vehicles?! now that's just pushin' it!

So... we're giving sympathy ratings along with empirical data, now? If it costs that much, what difference does it make who's "fault" it is?