Warsaw
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
Pending live-verification. The source URLs have not yet been fetched and archived in this round; the city will return to a HIGH classification once that is done. Original rationale: Fairwork Poland Ratings 2024 ("Intermediation Undermining Workers Rights in the Platform Economy"). in Fairwork published reports list at fair.work/en/fw/fairwork-reports/. Plus MB Partner industry analysis: 936 couriers / 131,165 Glovo deliveries (national avg 40.10 PLN/hr) + Wolt 57,000+ deliveries Mazowieckie/Warsaw avg 48.23 PLN/hr. PLN 45 ≈ $11.93 USD (PLN 0.265). Multi-source large-N survey + Fairwork report.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Fairwork Poland ratings (Wolt, Glovo)
What would you take home in Warsaw?
Take-home, weekly
$255
Take-home, monthly
$1,106
Gross, weekly
$358
Gross, monthly
$1,551
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $889/mo, rent eats most of your take-home (80% of monthly net).
Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.
Cost of living vs. earnings
That works out to roughly 24 hours per week. Rent at $889 per month is 43 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Warsaw delivery driver in HUD's “cost-burdened” band by the federal definition (over 30 percent of gross income on housing). Measured against net take-home pay, which is what a worker actually has available to spend, the same rent is 60 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $620 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Warsaw ranks 9th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 102% of local minimum wage, 51% of local median.
Notes
Polish minimum wage PLN 4666/month (2026, ~$8.50/hr). Couriers earn PLN 25-30/hr typical, often below local minimum wage when adjusted for hours.
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Primary earnings source: fair.work/en/fw/fairwork-reports/ · archived