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Gareth’s School in Kielce is recruiting English teachers, advertising from 50 złoty an hour. Kielce is a mid-sized city in the Świętokrzyskie region, well away from the Warsaw and Kraków competition, which usually means a smaller applicant pool and a lower cost of living against a slightly lower headline rate.
What to check before you apply
Ask whether the 50 złoty is the floor or the going rate, and how many hours are guaranteed rather than available. This school also appears on international ESL boards, which suggests it is used to hiring from abroad: worth asking directly whether it sponsors work permits for non-EU applicants.
The facts as advertised
- School: Gareth’s School
- Location: Kielce
- Advertised pay: Od 50 PLN za godzinę
- First advertised: 2026-11-05
- Advertised as: Szukamy Lektorów Języka Angielskiego
Pay and conditions are as advertised by the school and we have not verified them. Rates in Poland for language school work generally run from about 40 to 90 złoty an hour, so use that as context rather than treating any single figure as the market.
Teaching in Poland
Do I need to speak Polish to teach English in Poland?
No, and most language schools would rather you did not use it in class. What Polish gets you is a life outside work: dealing with a landlord, a doctor’s receptionist or ZUS paperwork is considerably easier with some. Be aware of the split in the job market, though. Of the roughly 44 English-teaching vacancies advertised on Pracuj.pl, Poland’s biggest job portal, in November 2026, only two were written in English. The rest were Polish-language adverts aimed at Polish nationals who teach English. The foreigner-facing roles are a much smaller pool, and they are the ones listed here.
What does teaching English in Poland actually pay?
Expect roughly 40 to 90 zu0142oty an hour at a language school, with business English nearer 70 to 120 and private lessons 80 to 150. A salaried full-time post is usually somewhere around 4,000 to 6,500 zu0142oty a month gross. Live adverts in late 2026 sat inside that: a Lublin school offering 40 to 50 zu0142oty an hour, a Kielce school from 50, and a school in Sierpc advertising 70 to 100. The upper figures you see quoted on TEFL course providers’ websites are real but they are the top of the range, not the middle. Poland’s statutory minimum wage in 2026 is 4,806 zu0142oty a month gross, or 31.40 zu0142oty an hour, which is a useful floor to measure any offer against.
What is umowa zlecenie, and should I accept one?
It is a civil contract rather than employment, and it is what most hourly teaching work in Poland is offered on. It is normal and it is legal, but understand what it is not: no paid holiday, no notice period, and your hours are whatever the timetable gives you that term. If the school loses a corporate client in February, your income drops in February. A full employment contract, umowa o pracu0119, carries holiday and notice but is usually reserved for salaried or senior posts. Ask which you are being offered before you discuss anything else, because it changes the real value of the hourly rate.
Applying safely
We want your job search to be safe as well as successful. Research any school thoroughly before you accept an offer, and ask for the contract type and the guaranteed hours in writing.
No legitimate school asks you to pay. Treat any request for a placement fee, a visa deposit, training costs or a “refundable” booking payment as a reason to walk away, however convincing the rest of the offer looks.
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