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Jobs abroad on a Polish job board: 1 ad in 26, twice as likely to show pay, about twice the pay
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Jobs abroad on a Polish job board: 1 ad in 26, twice as likely to show pay, about twice the pay

DEV Community: datascience·Yusuke Suda·1 day ago
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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…

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