Work / Expected salary for an engineer in Poland? [24]


Unfortunately, this is how it works. When i finished my studies in 2005/06 i had a big problem finding a job. Believe it or not, but it took me 5 months to finally find one,and the salary...1150 PLN netto. Damn joke, but i had 2 options - take it,or still remain unemployed. You can only imagine how i felt - 5 years of studies for nothing..bus drivers had better salaries (with all respect to those people). I even had a plan of moving to Germany or Uk. After 2-3 years of working in the same company i ended up with salary 3500-4000 PLN netto. That's why i decided to open my own business..but anyway if You're expecting 9000 PLN netto..damn, that's gonna be extremely hard. Let me put it this way - with 5-6 years of work experience, 1 or 2 languages (lets say intermadiate lvl), solid works/autodesk mastered - average salary in Poznan would be 3000 - 6000 PLN netto (maximum) - based on my friends salaries.

Hmm...prices in Poland lower than in western Europe? I have to disagree...

Work / Expected salary for an engineer in Poland? [24]

While i'm engineer myself i can try to tell You how it looks (more or less). First it depends where the future work is located - large city like Wroclaw,Warszawa or a small one like Kielce. Obviously the bigger cities have more opportunities to find well-payed job, but don't get to excited. Sometimes You can be quite shocked when the large company from a big city offers You 2.000 PLN for a start. If i were You i would avoid large concortiums (form example Volkswagen in Poznan). Maybe it changed during the time,but like 4-5 years ago it was disaster. The second thing - master degree in science doesn't make You god or something, but on the other hand - none of my friends (engineers) had a big problems finding a decent work. Foreign languages - that's Your key to find something interesting. Most of the polish engineers doesn't speak any language, while most of the polish companies have strong connections with the EU clients - keep that in mind. Third part - i assume You're quite confident with the 3D design & engineering software (catia,inventor,solid)? And last but not least - salary. With Your qualifications i'd say 3000 - 10000 PLN. It's hard to say really (You didn't tell us how many of work exp.do You have).

Oh..and i forgot to mention.I'm polish so I don't know how a potential polish employer finds a foreigner as his engineer. But don't worry,keep trying, i think You have good chances to find something which suits You :)