Polish night-work allowance: 20% of the minimum-wage hourly rate, month by month
Estimates only, not financial advice. What you type stays on your device. Checked against sources on 17 Oct 2026.In Poland each hour of night work earns 20% of the hourly rate from the minimum wage. In October 2026 that is 4,806 zł divided by 176 working hours, 27.31 zł, so 5.46 zł an hour; eight 8-hour night shifts, 64 hours, add 349.44 zł to the month's pay.
2026 · Rates and rules read from the sources listed on this page (the earliest on 17 Oct 2026); they may have changed since.
Pick the year and the month you worked the nights.
Type the hours worked at night, or tap a number of 8-hour night shifts.
Read the allowance for one night hour and for the month.
Open the table to see the rate for every month of the year.
This calculator works out the night-work allowance (dodatek za pracę w nocy) that an employee on an umowa o pracę earns under the Kodeks pracy.
What counts as night. The night (pora nocna) is 8 hours between 21:00 and 7:00, for example 22:00 to 6:00; the employer sets which 8 hours in the work rules (art. 151[7]). Every hour worked inside them is a night hour, whether it is part of the normal schedule or overtime.
How much. For each night hour the employee gets 20% of the hourly rate that comes from the minimum wage (art. 151[8]). The minimum wage is 4,806 zł in 2026 and 4,950 zł in 2027.
Why it changes each month. The hourly rate is the minimum wage divided by the hours of work in that month: 8 hours for every weekday, less 8 hours for each public holiday that does not fall on a Sunday (art. 130). October 2026 has 176 hours, so 27.31 zł an hour and 5.46 zł of allowance; November has 11 November on a Wednesday and only 160 hours, so 6.01 zł. The table shows every month of the year.
The working. The page rounds the hourly rate and the allowance per hour to the grosz and multiplies by the night hours. Payroll programs that keep more decimals can differ by a few groszy.
Night worker. Someone whose schedule includes at least 3 night hours every day, or a quarter of the working time at night, is a night worker; for particularly dangerous or heavy work their day may not exceed 8 hours.
What it does not do. A higher allowance in a collective agreement or the work rules, the flat monthly sum that may replace it for permanent work outside the workplace, and overtime supplements are not included. The Overtime Pay Calculator Poland adds the 50% and 100% overtime supplements.
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Twenty per cent of the hourly rate from the minimum wage for every hour worked at night. With the 4,806 zł minimum wage the hourly rate depends on the month's working hours, so the allowance is between about 5 and 6 zł an hour: 5.46 zł in October 2026.
Because the hourly rate is the minimum wage divided by the month's working hours. A month with 176 hours gives 27.31 zł an hour and 5.46 zł of allowance; a month with 160 hours gives 30.04 zł and 6.01 zł. The minimum wage stays the same all year.
Eight hours between 21:00 and 7:00, chosen by the employer in the work rules or the employment contract, for example 22:00 to 6:00. Every hour worked inside that window earns the allowance, also when it is overtime, which then earns the overtime supplement as well.
No. The code ties it to the minimum wage, not to your salary, so everybody working the same month gets the same amount per night hour. A collective agreement or the work rules may promise more, and then the higher amount is paid.
An employee whose schedule includes at least 3 hours of night work every day, or at least a quarter of the working time in the settlement period at night. For particularly dangerous or physically or mentally heavy work, a night worker's day may not be longer than 8 hours.
From January 2027 the minimum wage is 4,950 zł, so the allowance rises. In a month with 168 working hours the hourly rate is 29.46 zł and the night allowance 5.89 zł an hour. Pick 2027 in the calculator for each month.
Rates and rules change; check the source before you rely on a figure.
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