IT salaries in 2023 – how much can you earn when you start out?

I’m going to start working in IT and earn loads of money – there are many myths surrounding salaries in the IT industry. But what is the reality? How much do you earn in IT when you start out? Can juniors expect five-figure salaries? As we did last year, we conducted a survey to find out. We present specific examples, cities and positions. See for yourself!

How much do you earn in IT when you start out?

The IT industry offers high (or very high) salaries – we’ve all heard this statement. Is it true? We decided to check the situation regularly. The Mamo Pracuj team conducted its first survey a year ago. Interested in the results? Check them out

The #MamoPracujwIT group includes many people who are just considering a career change or who have already started learning a new profession. In an anonymous survey published in the group, we asked about the salaries of those members who had received their first job offer in IT in the last 12 months.

The responses were collected in the second half of August 2023. In the survey, we asked about: position, scope of responsibilities, starting salary, type of contract, city and size of the company, where:

• small company < 50 employees,
• medium-sized company 50-250 employees,
• large company > 250 employees.

So how much do you earn in IT when you start out?

Salaries in IT – Software tester

‘Software tester – Warsaw – PLN 5,000 gross (employment contract) – responsibilities: manual testing – large company’;

‘Software tester – Gdańsk (remote work) – PLN 5,384 gross (employment contract) – responsibilities: software testing, application testing, writing test cases, submitting stories, reporting bugs, customer contact, working with databases – large company’;

‘Software tester – Warsaw – PLN 6,500 gross (employment contract) – responsibilities: manual testing of mobile applications, reporting bugs, writing and executing test scenarios, working in scrum – large company’;

“Software tester – Wrocław – PLN 7,000 gross (employment contract) – responsibilities: testing data warehouses – large company”;

“Testing Analyst – Warsaw – PLN 9,200 gross (employment contract), I had experience in UAT testing from the business side in my previous position – responsibilities: conducting tests, creating test scenarios, preparing test data – large company”;