Textile, fur and leather products machine operators
Operatorzy maszyn do produkcji wyrobów włókienniczych, futrzarskich i skórzanych · occupation group 815. What employees earned in October 2024, from Statistics Poland (GUS), with take-home pay. About 43 500 people worked in this group.
Pay range
Most employees (the middle 80%) earned between 4 300 PLN and 7 134 PLN gross, which is about 3 262 PLN to 5 193 PLN take-home.
- 4 300
- 4 300
- 4 365
- 4 657
- 4 963
- 5 306
- 5 687
- 6 300
- 7 134
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.
- 5 289
- 5 566
- 5 272
- 5 438
- 5 377
- 5 342
Public or private sector
On average 5 369 PLN in the private sector and 5 400 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: Fibre preparing, spinning and winding machine operators · Weaving and Knitting Machine Operators · Sewing Machine Operators · Bleaching, Dyeing and fabric cleaning machine operators · Fur and Leather Preparing Machine Operators · Shoemaking and Related Machine Operators · Laundry Machine Operators · Textile, Fur and Leather Products Machine Operators (other).
- Obuwnik przemysłowy
- Operator agregatów natryskowych
- Operator maszyn do produkcji włóknin i przędzin
- Operator maszyn do przygotowania włókien
- Operator maszyn dziewiarskich
- Operator maszyn i urządzeń chemicznej obróbki skór
- Operator maszyn i urządzeń mechanicznej obróbki skór
- Operator maszyn przędzalniczych
- Operator maszyn przygotowawczych do wytwarzania płaskich wyrobów włókienniczych
- Operator maszyn tapicerskich
- Operator maszyn tkackich
- Operator maszyn w przemyśle włókienniczym
- Operator maszyn wykończalniczych wyrobów włókienniczych
- Operator obuwniczych urządzeń szwalniczych
- Operator przewijarek i skręcarek nitek
- Operator urządzeń do klejenia elementów odzieży
- Operator urządzeń do prania, prasowania i chemicznego czyszczenia tekstyliów
- Operator urządzeń kaletniczych
- Operator urządzeń montażowych obuwia
- Operator urządzeń wykrawających elementy obuwia
- Operator urządzeń wykrawających i nawarstwiających
- Pracownik pralni chemicznej
- Szwaczka maszynowa
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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.