Architects, planners, surveyors and designers
Architekci, geodeci i projektanci · occupation group 216. What employees earned in October 2024, from Statistics Poland (GUS), with take-home pay. About 31 100 people worked in this group.
Typical jobs: UX/UI Designer · Graphic Designer · Motion Designer / Animator · Art Director / Creative Director · 3D Artist / Visual Effects · Architect (building)
Pay range
Most employees (the middle 80%) earned between 5 000 PLN and 13 781 PLN gross, which is about 3 738 PLN to 9 724 PLN take-home.
- 5 000
- 5 815
- 6 497
- 7 112
- 7 802
- 8 602
- 9 620
- 10 984
- 13 781
Each bar is the most that the lowest-paid 10%, 20%, … 90% of employees earned. 50% is the median. k = thousand PLN.
Pay by years of experience
Average gross pay by total length of service.
- 7 361
- 8 192
- 9 115
- 9 404
- 9 670
- 9 234
Public or private sector
On average 8 829 PLN in the private sector and 8 718 PLN in the public sector.
October 2024 figures. Statistics Poland runs this survey every two years; the next edition covers October 2026. Since then pay has kept rising: the national average grew 8.6% in 2025. It covers employees of employers with 10 or more staff, so B2B contractors and very small firms are not included.
Job titles in this group
Includes: Building Architects · Landscape Architects · Product and Garment Designers · Town and traffic planners · Cartographers and Surveyors · Graphic and Multimedia Designers.
- Architekt
- Architekt krajobrazu
- Architekt wnętrz
- Architekt zieleni wewnątrz budynków
- Grafik komputerowy DTP
- Grafik komputerowy multimediów
- Ilustrator
- Inżynier geodeta – fotogrametria i teledetekcja
- Inżynier geodeta – geodezja górnicza
- Inżynier geodeta – geodezja inżynieryjno-przemysłowa
- Inżynier geodeta – geodezja urządzania terenów rolnych i leśnych
- Inżynier geodeta – geodezyjne pomiary podstawowe i satelitarne
- Inżynier geodeta – geomatyka
- Inżynier geodeta – kataster i gospodarka nieruchomościami
- Inżynier ruchu drogowego
- Inżynier ruchu kolejowego
- Kartograf
- Kostiumograf
- Projektant biżuterii
- Projektant ekspozycji towarów i usług (visual merchandiser)
- Projektant grafiki
- Projektant grafiki stron internetowych
- Projektant mody
- Projektant wyrobów skórzanych
- Projektant wzornictwa przemysłowego
- Specjalista do spraw animacji multimedialnej
- Urbanista
Related occupations
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- Mathematicians, actuaries and statisticians · 8 242 PLN
- Life science professionals · 9 003 PLN
- Engineering professionals (excluding electrotechnology) · 9 728 PLN
- Electrotechnology engineers · 11 478 PLN
Source: Statistics Poland (GUS), “Struktura wynagrodzeń według zawodów za październik 2024 r.”, detailed tables published 2026-02-10: average gross pay (table 5), deciles (table 13), pay by length of service (table 10), employees (table 4). Job titles: occupation classification KZiS (2025-11-27); English group names: GUS and ILO ISCO-08. Retrieved 2026-09-25.
Take-home is a regular month on an employment contract under 2026 rules, worked out with this site's calculator: age 26 or over, standard employee costs (250 PLN), the 300 PLN monthly tax relief, no PPK, before the 32% tax bracket.