Wood processing and papermaking plant operators
Operatorzy maszyn i urządzeń do obróbki drewna i produkcji papieru · occupation group 817. What employees earned in October 2024, from Statistics Poland (GUS), with take-home pay. About 25 300 people worked in this group.
Pay range
Most employees (the middle 80%) earned between 4 300 PLN and 8 645 PLN gross, which is about 3 262 PLN to 6 223 PLN take-home.
- 4 300
- 4 565
- 4 983
- 5 399
- 5 827
- 6 305
- 6 738
- 7 428
- 8 645
Each bar is the most that the lowest-paid 10%, 20%, … 90% of employees earned. 50% is the median. k = thousand PLN.
Public or private sector
On average 6 322 PLN in the private sector and 6 335 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: Pulp and Papermaking Plant Operators · Wood Processing Plant Operators.
- Mechanik-operator maszyn do produkcji drzewnej
- Operator kalandrów wyrobów papierowych
- Operator linii do belowania makulatury
- Operator maszyn do produkcji płyt i sklejek
- Operator maszyn i urządzeń przemysłu drzewnego
- Operator maszyny odwadniającej celulozę
- Operator maszyny papierniczej
- Operator maszyny tekturniczej
- Operator pergaminiarki
- Operator pilarek do pozyskiwania tarcicy
- Operator pras w produkcji drzewnej
- Operator sklejarek płyt stolarskich
- Operator skrawarek drewna
- Operator spajarek okleiny i łuszczki
- Operator strugarek i frezarek do drewna
- Operator urządzeń bielących masy włókniste
- Operator urządzeń do impregnowania i powlekania wyrobów papierowych
- Operator urządzeń do końcowej obróbki płyt
- Operator urządzeń do mielenia masy włóknistej
- Operator urządzeń do przygotowywania i dozowania dodatków masowych
- Operator urządzeń do ścierania drewna
- Operator urządzeń rębalni drewna
- Operator urządzeń rozwłókniających
- Operator urządzeń warzelni
- Pilarz
- Sterowniczy linii sztaplowania i pakietowania tarcicy
- Tartacznik
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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.