What work pays in Sweden
Full monthly-salary distributions for 361 occupations, with sector comparisons — from Statistics Sweden.
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361 occupations · 7 sectors
Every page is a distribution, not a number. Figures are gross monthly salary (månadslön) for full-time equivalents, in kronor, as Swedish pay is actually quoted — with the 10th to 90th percentile spread and a sector-by-sector comparison on every page. Source: Statistics Sweden (SCB), salary structure statistics. Method and sources: see the methodology.
Administration and Customer Service Clerks
- Back office-staff
- Croupiers, bookmakers and related workers
- Customer Service Information Clerks
- Debt-collectors, pawnbrokers and related workers
- Economic assistants
- Elected representatives
- Hotel receptionists
- Library and filing clerks
- Market and sales assistants
- Medical secretaries and related associate professionals
- Office clerks not elsewhere classified
- Office receptionists
- Payroll and personnel clerks
- Postmen and postal facility workers
- School assistants
- Survey and market research interviewers
- Telephonist-switchboard operators
- Transport coordinators
- Travel agents and related clerks
- Warehouse and terminal Staff
- Warehouse and terminal supervisors
Agricultural, Horticultural, Forestry and Fishery Workers
Armed Forces Occupations
Building and Manufacturing Workers
- Agricultural and industrial machinery mechanics and repairers
- Bakers, pastry-cooks and confectionery makers
- Bookbinders and related workers
- Bricklayers and related workers
- Building frame and related trades workers not elsewhere classified
- Building structure cleaners and related workers
- Butchers, fishmongers and related food preparers
- Cabinet-makers and related workers
- Concrete placers, concrete finishers and related workers
- Electrical line installers and repairers
- Electrical mechanics and fitters
- Electricians, installation and service
- Glaziers
- Heating and air conditioning mechanics
- Insulation workers
- Leather craft workers, shoemakers and related workers
- Machine operator, Wood-products
- Machine-tool operators
- Metal moulders and related workers
- Musical instrument makers and other handicraft workers
- Other food processors
- Painters and industrial painters
- Painters and related workers
- Plumbing and central heating fitters
- Precision-instrument makers and repairers
- Printers
- Rail and road construction workers
- Scaffold builders
- Sheet metal workers
- Tailors and related workers
- Toolmakers and related workers
- Upholsterers and related workers
- Vehicle mechanics and repairers
- Welders and flame cutters
- Woodworkers, carpenters
Elementary Occupations
- Berry pickers and planters
- Car reconditioning labourers, window cleaners and other hand cleaning workers
- Cleaners and helpers in offices, hotels and other establishments
- Construction labourers
- Dock labourers
- Ground personnel, movers and stockers
- Janitors and related workers
- Leaflet and newspaper distributors
- Maid, nanny and related workers
- Manufacturing labourers
- Other service workers not elsewhere classified
- Recycling collectors
- Restaurant and kitchen helpers
Managers
- Administration and planning managers
- Administration and service managers not elsewhere classified, level 1
- Administration and service managers not elsewhere classified, level 2
- Architectural and engineering managers, level 1
- Architectural and engineering managers, level 2
- Clinical and operations managers in health care, level 1
- Department and unit managers in health care, level 2
- Department managers in elderly care, level 1
- Department managers in pre-school, level 1
- Department managers in social and curative care, level 1
- Directors and chief executives
- Finance managers, level 2
- Forestry and agricultural production managers
- Headmasters, level 2
- Hotel and conference managers, level 1
- Human resource managers, level 2
- Information and communications technology service managers, level 1
- Information and communications technology service managers, level 2
- Information, communication and public relations managers, level 1
- Information, communication and public relations managers, level 2
- Managers and leaders within religious bodies
- Managers in public services not elsewhere classified, level 1
- Operations managers in public services not elsewhere classified, level 2
- Other services managers not elsewhere classified, level 1
- Other services managers not elsewhere classified, level 2
- Pre-school managers, level 2
- Primary and secondary schools and adult education managers, level 1
- Production managers in construction and mining, level 2
- Production managers in manufacturing, level 1
- Production managers in manufacturing, level 2
- Real estate and head of administration managers, level 2
- Research and development managers, level 1
- Research and development managers, level 2
- Restaurant managers, level 1
- Restaurant managers, level 2
- Retail and wholesale trade managers, level 2
- Sales and marketing managers, level 1
- Sales and marketing managers, level 2
- Senior government officials
- Senior officials of special-interest organisations
- Sports, leisure and wellness managers, level 2
- Supply, logistics and transport managers, level 1
- Unit managers in elderly care, level 2
- Unit managers in social and curative care, level 2
Mechanical Manufacturing and Transport Workers
- Assemblers not elsewhere classified
- Bus and tram drivers
- Chemical processing plant controllers
- Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
- Forestry and agricultural machinery operators
- Fork-lift drivers
- Heavy Equipment Operators
- Heavy truck and lorry drivers
- Machine operator, cement, stone and other mineral products
- Machine operators not elsewhere classified, food and related products
- Machine operators not elsewhere classified, stationary plant and
- Machine operators not elsewhere classified, textile, fur and leather products
- Machine operators, baked-goods, cereal and chocolate-products
- Machine operators, bleaching, dyeing and cleaning
- Machine operators, chemical and photographic products
- Machine operators, dairy-products
- Machine operators, meat- and fish-processing
- Machine operators, metal finishing, plating and coating
- Machine operators, packing, bottling and labelling
- Machine operators, paper products
- Machine operators, pharmaceutical products
- Machine operators, plastic products
- Machine operators, rubber products
- Machine operators, wood treaters
- Mechanical machinery assemblers
- Metal melter and rolling-mill operators
- Metal processing plant operators not elsewhere classified
- Metal production process controllers
- Metal-, rubber- and plastic-products assemblers
- Mineral and stone processing plant operators
- Motorcycle, bicycle drivers and other automobile drivers not elsewhere classified
- Paper pulp plant operators
- Papermaking plant operators
- Power production and water treatment plant operators
- Process control technicians not elsewhere classified
- Railway, signal and switch operators
- Ships deck crews and related workers
- Shot firers and blasters
- Taxi, car, and van drivers
- Train operator
- Wood and related products assemblers
- Wood processing, sawmill and plywood plant operators
Occupations Requiring Advanced Higher Education
- Accountants
- Actors
- Advertising and marketing professionals
- Agricultural professionals
- Anaesthesia nurses
- Archaeologists and related professionals
- Architects
- Architects, town and traffic planners
- Assistance analysts
- Audiologists and speech therapists
- Authors and related writers
- Business and company lawyers
- Cartographers and surveyors
- Cell and molecular biologists and related professionals
- Chemists
- Company nurses
- Counselling professionals
- Deacons
- Dentists
- Dieticians
- District nurses
- Economists and macro analyst
- Economists not elsewhere classified
- Engineering professionals in building construction
- Engineering professionals in chemical technology
- Engineering professionals in electrical, electronics and telecommunications
- Engineering professionals in logistics and production
- Engineering professionals in mechanical technology
- Engineering professionals in mining-, metallurgy technology and related professionals
- Engineering professionals not elsewhere classified
- Environmental and occupational health and hygiene professionals
- Environmental and occupational health inspectors
- Fashion designers and related professionals
- Film, stage and related directors and producers
- Financial and investment advisers
- Financial controllers
- Forestry professionals
- Game and digital media designers
- Games and digital media developers
- General medical practitioners
- Geologists, geophysicists and related professionals
- Graphic designers
- Health professionals not elsewhere classified
- ICT-specialist professionals not elsewhere classified
- Journalists and related professionals
- Judges
- Landscape architects
- Lawyers
- Legal professionals not elsewhere classified
- Librarians and archivists
- Management and organisation analysts
- Mathematicians and actuaries
- Meteorologists
- Museum curators and related professionals
- Musicians, singers and composers
- Nurses - Ambulance
- Nurses - children
- Nurses - geriatric
- Nurses - Intensive care
- Nurses - operation
- Nurses - radiology
- Nurses - school
- Occupational therapist
- Opticians
- Other physicians
- Other specialist nurses
- Personnel and human resources specialist
- Pharmacologists and related professionals
- PhD Students
- Physicists and astronomers
- Physiotherapists
- Plant and animal biologists
- Policy administration professionals
- Preschool teachers
- Primary school teachers
- Product designers, industrial
- Professional midwifes
- Professional nurses
- Professors
- Prosecutors
- Psychiatry nurses
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Public relations professionals
- Recreation leaders
- Religious professionals
- Research assistants
- Resident physicians
- School counsellor
- Secondary education teachers
- Security specialists (ICT)
- Social work professionals
- Social work professions not elsewhere classified
- Software- and system developers
- Special teachers and special needs teachers
- Specialist physicians
- Statisticians
- System administrators
- System analysts and ICT-architects
- Teaching professionals not elsewhere classified
- Translators, interpreters and other linguists
- University and higher education lecturers
- University and higher education teachers not elsewhere classified
- Veterinarians
- Vocational education teachers
Occupations Requiring Higher Education
- Accounting associate professionals
- Administrative and specialized secretaries
- Administrative secretaries and related associate professionals
- Air traffic controllers
- Bank clerk
- Broadcasting and audio-visual technicians
- Business services agents not elsewhere classified
- Buyers and purchasers
- Chefs and sous-chefs
- Chemical and physical science technicians
- Chemical engineering technicians
- Claims assessor and valuers
- Commercial sales representatives
- Computer network and systems technicians
- Construction and manufacturing engineering technicians
- Construction and mining supervisors
- Customs and coast guard officers
- Dental and orthopaedic technicians
- Dental hygienists
- Electronics engineering technicians
- Employment officers
- Event and travel planners
- Forwarding agents and transport brokers
- GIS and cartographic engineers
- Government social benefits officials
- ICT operations technicians
- ICT support technicians
- Industrial, logistics and production planning engineering technicians
- Insurance sellers and insurance advisers
- Legal secretaries
- Light, sound and stage technicians
- Manufacturing supervisors
- Mechanical engineering technicians
- Medical and pathology laboratory technicians
- Medical imaging and therapeutic equipment technicians
- Office supervisors
- Orders coordinator
- Police Officers
- Prescriptionists
- Real estate administrators
- Real estate agents
- Recreation and related associate professionals
- Safety and quality inspectors
- Ships deck officers
- Ships engineers
- Social work associate professionals
- Sports coachers and instructors
- Stage managers and related associate professionals
- Tax officials
- Technicians not elsewhere classified
- Veterinary assistants
- Webmasters and web administrators
- Wellness consultants and health educators
Service, Care and Shop Sales Workers
- Ambulance attendants
- Assistant nurses, children
- Assistant nurses, clinic
- Assistant nurses, home care and homes for the elderly
- Assistant nurses, hospital ward
- Attendants
- Bartenders
- Beauty and body therapists professionals not elsewhere classified
- Building caretakers
- Cabin crew
- Cashiers and related clerks
- Child care workers
- Cleaning supervisors and housekeepers
- Cooks and cold-buffet managers
- Dental nurses
- Emergency call operators
- Event salespeople and shop demonstrators
- Firefighters
- Hairdressers
- Home-based personal care and related workers
- Personal assistants
- Personal care providers
- Personal care workers in health services not elsewhere classified
- Personal services workers not elsewhere classified
- Petrol station personnel
- Pharmacy technicians
- Prison guards
- Protective services workers not elsewhere classified
- Rental salespersons
- Security guards
- shop sales, groceries
- shop sales, specialty stores
- Shopkeepers and shop supervisors, selling in stores
- Teachers aides
- Telemarketers
- Train attendants, persons responsible on board
- Travel guides
- Undertakers and embalmers
- Waiters