Praca pl, one of Poland's national job boards, tags some ads as located outside Poland. I count them every day along with the domestic ads. They are a small slice of the board, but they look very different from the rest.
How many
On 6 November 2026 the board had 634 live ads for jobs abroad, out of 16,725 in total: about 1 in 26. The number has been steady: 661 on 20 October, 666 on 27 October, 639 on 3 November.
What kind of jobs
Almost all of them are manual and technical work (6 November):
| Category | Ads abroad | Share stating pay | Median advertised pay (PLN/month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engineering & technical | 219 | 34% | 11,600 |
| Production | 165 | 42% | 14,000 |
| Transport & logistics | 130 | 51% | 11,500 |
| Other | 71 | 42% | 16,000 |
| Construction | 28 | 36% | 10,000 |
| All other categories | 21 | — | — |
Office, sales, IT and health care jobs abroad barely appear: 21 ads between them.
Pay is shown far more often, and it is higher
- 40.4% of the ads for jobs abroad state pay, against 19.5% for the board as a whole.
- The median advertised pay abroad is 11,900 PLN a month. Within Poland the median by voivodeship ranges from about 5,500 to 7,000 PLN.
- The gap holds within the same kind of job. In production, 42% of ads abroad state pay against 22% of domestic ads; in transport & logistics, 51% against 44%; in engineering, 34% against 15.5%.
Employers recruiting Polish workers for jobs abroad compete on the wage, so they put it in the ad. Domestic employers, for the most part, still do not.
Caveats
- Counts of ads on one board's public list pages, not vacancies.
- The board marks an ad as abroad; it does not tell us which country, so this cannot be split by destination.
- Pay is the advertised monthly amount in PLN (lower bound where a range is given). Ads abroad may quote a converted amount, and pay abroad comes with higher living costs, so the gap is not a like-for-like comparison of living standards.
- Medians are shown only where at least five ads in the group state pay.
The data
The daily counts by voivodeship and category, including the "abroad" group, with the pay share and median pay, are free on Hugging Face at huggingface.co/datasets/listingworks, updated every day since early October 2026.
