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Cost of Living in Warsaw
Summary about cost of living in Warsaw:
- Four-person family monthly costs: 1,889.33$ (6,750.06zł) without rent (using our estimator).
- A single person monthly costs: 557.79$ (1,992.84zł) without rent.
- Cost of living index in Warsaw is 53.01% lower than in New York.
- Cost of living rank 378th out of 514 cities in the world.
- Warsaw has a cost of living index of 46.99.
| Restaurants | [ Edit ] | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant | 25.00 zł | |
| Meal for 2 People, Mid-range Restaurant, Three-course | 100.00 zł | |
| McMeal at McDonalds (or Equivalent Combo Meal) | 17.00 zł | |
| Domestic Beer (1 pint draught) | 8.00 zł | |
| Imported Beer (11.2 oz small bottle) | 9.00 zł | |
| Cappuccino (regular) | 8.90 zł | |
| Coke/Pepsi (11.2 oz small bottle) | 4.10 zł | |
| Water (11.2 oz small bottle) | 3.06 zł | |
| Markets | [ Edit ] | |
| Milk (regular), (1 gallon) | 9.78 zł | |
| Loaf of Fresh White Bread (1 lb) | 2.51 zł | |
| Rice (white), (1 lb) | 1.60 zł | |
| Eggs (regular) (12) | 7.25 zł | |
| Local Cheese (1 lb) | 10.42 zł | |
| Chicken Breasts (Boneless, Skinless), (1 lb) | 7.14 zł | |
| Beef Round (1 lb) (or Equivalent Back Leg Red Meat) | 15.55 zł | |
| Apples (1 lb) | 1.19 zł | |
| Banana (1 lb) | 1.98 zł | |
| Oranges (1 lb) | 2.12 zł | |
| Tomato (1 lb) | 2.43 zł | |
| Potato (1 lb) | 0.83 zł | |
| Onion (1 lb) | 0.84 zł | |
| Lettuce (1 head) | 3.01 zł | |
| Water (1.5 liter bottle) | 1.94 zł | |
| Bottle of Wine (Mid-Range) | 24.00 zł | |
| Domestic Beer (0.5 liter bottle) | 3.17 zł | |
| Imported Beer (11.2 oz small bottle) | 4.78 zł | |
| Pack of Cigarettes (Marlboro) | 15.00 zł | |
| Transportation | [ Edit ] | |
| One-way Ticket (Local Transport) | 4.40 zł | |
| Monthly Pass (Regular Price) | 110.00 zł | |
| Taxi Start (Normal Tariff) | 8.00 zł | |
| Taxi 1 mile (Normal Tariff) | 3.54 zł | |
| Taxi 1hour Waiting (Normal Tariff) | 40.00 zł | |
| Gasoline (1 gallon) | 17.45 zł | |
| Volkswagen Golf 1.4 90 KW Trendline (Or Equivalent New Car) | 70,000.00 zł | |
| Toyota Corolla 1.6l 97kW Comfort (Or Equivalent New Car) | 74,736.84 zł | |
| Utilities (Monthly) | [ Edit ] | |
| Basic (Electricity, Heating, Water, Garbage) for 915 sq ft Apartment | 603.54 zł | |
| 1 min. of Prepaid Mobile Tariff Local (No Discounts or Plans) | 0.25 zł | |
| Internet (60 Mbps or More, Unlimited Data, Cable/ADSL) | 47.95 zł | |
| Sports And Leisure | [ Edit ] | |
| Fitness Club, Monthly Fee for 1 Adult | 117.75 zł | |
| Tennis Court Rent (1 Hour on Weekend) | 58.28 zł | |
| Cinema, International Release, 1 Seat | 27.00 zł | |
| Childcare | [ Edit ] | |
| Preschool (or Kindergarten), Private, Monthly for 1 Child | 1,315.52 zł | |
| International Primary School, Yearly for 1 Child | 41,476.92 zł | |
| Clothing And Shoes | [ Edit ] | |
| 1 Pair of Jeans (Levis 501 Or Similar) | 264.32 zł | |
| 1 Summer Dress in a Chain Store (Zara, H&M, ...) | 134.45 zł | |
| 1 Pair of Nike Running Shoes (Mid-Range) | 289.84 zł | |
| 1 Pair of Men Leather Business Shoes | 324.49 zł | |
| Rent Per Month | [ Edit ] | |
| Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre | 2,288.10 zł | |
| Apartment (1 bedroom) Outside of Centre | 1,739.60 zł | |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre | 3,923.08 zł | |
| Apartment (3 bedrooms) Outside of Centre | 2,938.61 zł | |
| Buy Apartment Price | [ Edit ] | |
| Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment in City Centre | 983.27 zł | |
| Price per Square Feet to Buy Apartment Outside of Centre | 645.97 zł | |
| Salaries And Financing | [ Edit ] | |
| Average Monthly Net Salary (After Tax) | 3,833.06 zł | |
| Mortgage Interest Rate in Percentages (%), Yearly | 3.57 |
Prices in Warsaw
These data are based on 7819 entries in the past 12 months from 512 different contributors.
Last update: September 2017
Last update: September 2017
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78 Comments so far
Far-right football hooligans are more active in cities like Krakow and Wroclaw recently.
Warsaw is a very safe city and Poland on a whole is a safe country, way more than a few western country where crime is stronger.
You've nothing to fear about being beaten or experiencing overt racism in Poland.
Instead, if you're not an Erasmus student you could experience isolation: generalizing poles are not very outgoing like Spaniards or Portuguese, they tend to stay with their circle of friends and they don't try to socialize on every opportunity.
Warsaw in particular, despite being a big city has a very rural background being a destination for villagers, and the mentality is still there.
Must be said anyway that there's quite a big difference between polish boys and girls, since the girls are generally very open and curious about diverse people.
If I were You there, I'd more feared of bald/short haircut guys in tracksuits or blue jeans and hoddie than skinheads. Your chances to meet skinheads here ain't much bigger to meet inuits.
Enter to search engine a word "dresiarz" - then you'll know what they look like.
Check out some of my articles:
1. How do you submit a tax return form in Poland - https://www.justaskpoland.com/pit-english-tax-return-poland/
2. Registration for a place of living in Poland - https://www.justaskpoland.com/zameldowanie-for-foreigners/
3. How can you study and work in Poland - https://www.justaskpoland.com/study-and-work-in-poland/
"To non-whites in Poland:
Beware of local uneducated guys that wear always tracksuits or camo combat trousers, have short haircuts, wear happy bags across the chest and baseball caps with the visor pointing the sky"
Are they skinheads or chavs in Poland? How would they react to an east asian guy? Can you show me some pictures of them so that I can get a feel for what they look like?
I would like to put a small store/shop in Warsaw for home furnishing products from india,
pls advise the rules and regulations, and rent for a shop in a wee market area
and Can a foreign (not polish) student to buy an apartment through his stay?
It may be caused by:
1) domestic definition of 1 bedroom apartment - in Poland it is an apartment with one room dedicated to all living purposes including sleeping, kitchening and dining, and separate bathroom. Its size ranges from 15 to 25 square meters.
Your definition of 1 bedroom apartment is equal to our 2 bedrooms.
2) lack of attention / language skills of respondents
& charges of bus & taxi .
Thanks!
DER ELEFANT
Aioli
Enjoy the dinner :)
Apartments can be found easily. Though living in the city center is much more expensive due to the lack of the availibility of big supermarkets where the cost of F&B is much higher than in the supermarkets in suburbs. by that I mean, even though there is a "biedronka" on every corner but the choice is much smaller since they do not have that spacious shops in the city center like the suburbs / farrest places (ie: Bialoleka; Wlochy itp...)
The prices are not so realistic mentionned upstairs.
3500 per month is a fair salary low though I wouldnt personally accept this salary since living in the city center as mentioned in my comment above is much different then living in the boarders of the city.
Cheers!
1) How much is the cost of living for one person monthly? (Except renting apartment)
2) Renting an apartment is cheaper or registering for a dormitory? and which one is recommended?
3) Is it legally possible to work while you are a PhD student? and if is it possible how many hours in a week?
4) What is monthly pass? Does it mean with paying about 26 EUR for each month I can use bus and train for going all over the city? Or, it has some limitation.
this is the page of Warsaw and so I'm pretty sure Pedro and Rzan Klod are talking about Warsaw area.
Pedro description is not far from reality, the last summer was one of the most mild in the last 20 years in Poland and anyway in Warsaw you needed the jacket in the evening during August!
Before August it rained almost 1 month without interruption, and between March and June the weather used to change a lot during the day.
This winter will be probably warmer than the previous, but anyway you need the winter jacket for at least 5 months ... but that's not a problem, the worst is the lack of sunlight that is very depressing
that's a price for a Bar Mleczny maybe, that sure is not a mid-range restaurant
Beware of local uneducated guys that wear always tracksuits or camo combat trousers, have short haircuts, wear happy bags across the chest and baseball caps with the visor pointing the sky
Yes if you come from UK or such countries ...
winters last 7 months and is dark at 3pm, for the rest of the months it rains except August
The cost of duch apartments in there areas is 5000 PLN up per month. You can check the websites.
"Shitty weather and miserable faces"? "
In fact faces are miserable, but the weather is OK.
"Shitty weather and miserable faces"? OMG... The autor (#Rzan Klod) probably described himself. Polish women are the most beautiful on the world.
#Pale Fire: Why do you think that here is no way you could get a livable 3 bed flat for 2,483.90 zł? Actually, this is average and current price for 3-bed flat. Your's 5000 zł is probably for penthouse or room in good hotel.
Warsaw is unexplainable expensive in its greyness, shitty weather and miserable faces.
For expenses, think to relocated in whatever western country except for public transportation, beer, potatoes and sweet'n'sour cabbage.
For expats thinking of moving to Warsaw looking for something decent in a suburb near international schools, private hospitals etc, think of adding a third or doubling the figure.
Same goes for purchase properties.
in the country, seeing it as a cheap backdoor to enter Western Europe: gather many informations thru forums of expats in PL and mind 10 or more times
about the move.
IT is pretty strong in Poland and there are many international companies (especially in Wroclaw) that hire experienced and qualified foreigners for positions
that require only english language, but absolutely negotiate the salary thinking to be the added value in the company and not a cheap jobber; to clarify, here
is not the Gulf, is not flooded with tons of indians running shops with food and clothes at indian prices, the things work in the opposite direction: PL for
adapting the standard of living isn't really an expat-friendly country, isn't like in most of the countries of western Europe where even all the locals buy
the food at the supermarkets, get brand new electronics and clothes at the shopping malls, ... here in PL even due to the very low salaries for non qualified jobs
people rely a lot into the family network that provide food accomodation and others, many own their homes or are on a mortgage, they even buy second hand clothes
from UK, ... so the market is very narrow in many voices that generally involve the common expat.
For an expat is pretty much impossible to spend less than a pole to live, instead he'll end to spend much more, some goods like brand new clothes are pretty
expensive for the salaries in Poland, and you've to mind if is worth to live thousands of kms far from home and family to check daily your account.
As an experienced IT specialist living alone absolutely I wouldn't try the move for less than 5k net a month; you can plan to work here for an year, get the
residency permit and then start taking interviews with companies located in West Europe, but mind that apart UK and Ireland (that are not in Schengen) in the
other countries most of the time is required to be fluent in the local language, except some risky startup projects where there's even more pressure for the
results and speaking indian-english could be more an hurdle than other.
About the university master programs in english language in Poland, I go straight: they're useless for the job market in Europe.
They're good for a cheap experience in a nice environment of young students in beautiful cities like Krakow, but really is it worth to go cheap to have
nothing in the hands instead of spitting blood to submit to an expensive european university where at the end you've more than a chance to get your fav job?
Without counting that in Germany uni master programs aren't very expensive.
Count also that in Poland you'll have to rely only on your parents money, there are no jobs for foreigner students that don't speak polish, if not in
the kitchen of a kebab shop getting the ass kicked for 5zl/hour; in many western countries is far more easier for a foreigner student to work in a clerk kind
of job and the minimum wage rules will allow you to get shit money anyway but enough to survive.
But going straight to the masters programs in english, take a program at least in one of the first 10 unis in Poland and anyway the chances to get a job at
the end are close to the absolute zero, if not that the master is somewhat evaluated in India as a "western education degree" or such, but in Europe there are
already loads of students with a master degree and the english masters in Poland are the bottom of the barrel.
Take infos on internet, I think that who already had these experiences wrote something on some sites.
(jkalu619@gmail.com) I like to meet someone
Thank you!
Can I afford to live with 4000 PLN in Warsaw?
Are there any chances salary to grow up in a short time? I mean are there opportunities in this business field and are companies ready to pay more for an employee who wish to achive career development?
I'm from Poland and I like Muslims. I think you're stupid if you think, that every body in our country is thinking like you. It's a shame to read shit just like yours on international internet sites. Sorry for my English :)
But other nations, especially Europeans and Eastern Asians, are greeted with sympathy - they are much welcomed here.
It is typical catolic city. If you are muslim or asian specialy india go away from poland. We have too much staff that we have to move back to native countries."
Please do not hear him - you are very welcome in Warsaw. In the big cities in Poland the influence of Catholics is falling every year.
I will be shifting from India with my wife so would be renting an appartment. Do we get fully furnished appt in Warsaw and what will be the rent?
Thanks.
I suppose to work in Warsaw and I have some questions would be glad if anybody answer them :
1.Whats the approximate salary for Art director / Motion graphic designer with 12 years experience?
2.Who people in Warsaw react about Muslims and Hijab .
3.Does my kids will face any troubles in schools if they are Muslims .
Thank you all
prestige real estate warsaw
In Supermarkets, but doing what? Putting products on the shelves, or as an Area Manager?
I can tell you that entry level we are talking about 500 euros if you are lucky.
Area Manager: 2000/2500 euros.
I got the same salary (net) and I can tell you you can afford all that. If your wife though does not work, then it might become a bit complicated if your expectations are high with relations to standards of life. I mean, if you wanna send two kids to private school, gotta provide for your wife and wanna live in a nice area....you might be tight fella.
That said, I know people they live in Piaseczno and survive with 2500 zl per month (4 ppl).
Where do you come from?
I have two Indian friends Shilpa and Sunil and they've never been told anything bad in the past two years, if anything, people are kinda curious to know better about them.
Gotta be said though that in this country there is a HUGE difference between men and women! Women are curious and interested in loads of things, the same can't be said about the men.
I would like to enter the leather business in Poland & other countries, wish to have a small store / shop of my own, maybe jointly with someone from there. I wouls like to send the accessories from india & sell it from there .
Would like to get in touch with some interested person, maybe then I can also go & stay for sometime there and look after the business.
anyone ther to answer me and interested !!!
tanusree22datta@yahoo.com
www.technoleather.co.in
09830033633
it depends a lot of neighbourhood obviously, as everywhere in the world. Additionally, also it depends on building, as about 60-70% of flats here in Warsaw are "plattenbau" plate-blocks(you can google what it is). Everything what is not plate-block, is +10 or 15% of average price in particular area.
1 room flats are usually about 30m2, not more. Over 40m2 1-room studio flats does not exist here at all, you can met them very rarely.
Considering 1EUR is 4PLN, prices for such flat (~30m2) are from 50K euro in the areas far from city center and about 75K euro in the city center. I am saying of course about this plate-blocks' flats.
You can also look for some new-built flats, which are mostly around the city-borders. If the block is still under construction, you can buy it even cheaper as in old-plates block. But please consider, that comparing to the western European cities, public transport here is quite poor. There is only one subway-line, second is under construction. Most of the districts are not connected with center by subway at all - you can rely only on buses or trams. From some of the districts, altough they are in the city (like Bialoleka or Wawer) to get the office in the morning can take even about 1.5 hour.
Current price provided (85m2 = 550PLN) you wont meet anywhere in Poland's top-4-cities I guess, maybe in small towns, for such big flat (it is a really huge flat in meaning for local standards, average family has 2 rooms means 1 bedroom for 3-persons family - about 50m2 maximum).
Additionally, usually not a lot goes within this payment. You can have standard cleaning of the floors inside the block + the pavements outside + some gardening jobs done in shared area, but not always, sometimes cleaning the particular floor is up to it's inhabitants.
I am an Indian and recently received an offer from a company in warsaw of 1200Eur( take home ) per month. Accomodation is company provided and free. How good is the offer? I love to cook my own food.
Thanks,
Ravi
hmm I would disagree with that.
Medium standard appartment about 40m2 in city is about 2000 PLN, and costs of monthly bills (citycard, contract-mobile phone, internet connection, TV) is about 500 PLN total. So 2500 (almost a half what Tomasz mentioned) can be spend on just living without food. Food in restaurants, as he mentioned, is about 30 PLN per day, so about 1000 PLN for dinners/launches only.
Dont get me wrong, I am not saying that 5500 PLN net is low salary. It gives quite ok living there, but I think not the way you ve mentioned "with nice savings". After all the costs it will end up with about 1000 PLN savings per month, what cannont be seen as nice (it is about 200-250 euro depends on exchange rate).
5500 PLN (~1300 eur) in Warsaw is like 1800 eur in some Western-European city, excluding top-cities (London, Paris, Munich).
I am planning to come to Warsaw with my girlfriend. She will be studying at University of Warsaw.
We need a small flat 25m-35m(preferably walking distance from the university). We don't go out much and love to cook our own food. We are both young and we are careful with money.
Will we be able to survive at 3000 zloty per month?
Thanks!!
have to feed 2. wife not working, so on top of the listed expenses goes "wife allowance" :)
rent is dodgy. all the website are giving decent standard flat (50-60m) not cheaer than 3000 pln.
how about a proper fitness? anyone tried? whats the cost?
Exapts: how many private flghts hoe per year do you normally have in the contract? paid by Company obviously. thanks
Rental offers on polish websites are mostly unavailable and everything is in Polish.
My friend recommended to my on professional Real Estate Agent from Warsaw.
He picked me out from the airport and within 2 days we find the good standard apartment in Central Warsaw.
The Agent was helpful and experienced. He even helped me with accommodation and installation of the Internet.
They have an office in Warsaw at Powiśle.
I find them on http://prestige-real-estate-warsaw.pl or www.nprestige.pl
AJ
There is really a few agencies with big experience in Rental Market and the agents are not well qualified.
I find one agency with great experience and the Agents speaks English fluently.
The agent recommended to me some rental offers and organized the viewings.
He knew exactly what I wanted so we were visiting good standard apartments located in new buildings with the 24h security.
I choose one offer and I am living in this apartment for 2 years and I am very happy.
The Real Estate Agency prepared everything for me : The Rental Contract Drafts, The protocol of acceptance, they checked the Mortgage Register, they photographed the whole premise etc.
They even helped me with the registration and installation of the internet in the apartment.
I can really recommend them to all foreigners that are looking for the rental apartment in Warsaw. their website is www.nprestige.pl
I will move in Warsaw,with net income ~7000 PLN ,maybe a bit more.
I need to know about apartment with 1 bedroom,to rent in a decent area;i heard about Mokotov,,,,any other sugestion? What about Bemowo? is too far from center?
thanks:)