Physical and Earth science professionals
Fizycy, chemicy i specjaliści nauk o ziemi · occupation group 211. What employees earned in October 2024, from Statistics Poland (GUS), with take-home pay. About 10 600 people worked in this group.
Pay range
Most employees (the middle 80%) earned between 6 036 PLN and 16 218 PLN gross, which is about 4 445 PLN to 11 386 PLN take-home.
- 6 036
- 6 950
- 7 684
- 8 377
- 9 167
- 10 054
- 11 265
- 13 078
- 16 218
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.
- 7 742
- 8 239
- 9 336
- 10 456
- 11 574
- 11 660
Public or private sector
On average 10 147 PLN in the private sector and 10 569 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: Physicists and Astronomers · Meteorologists · Chemists · Geologists and Geophysicists.
- Agrochemik
- Astrofizyk
- Astronom
- Chemik
- Chemik – technologia chemiczna
- Fizyk
- Fizyk medyczny
- Geofizyk
- Geograf
- Geolog
- Hydrograf morski
- Hydrolog
- Hydrometeorolog
- Klimatolog
- Meteorolog
- Oceanolog
- Paleontolog
- Perfumiarz
- Synoptyk
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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.