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Cooks and cold-buffet managers

Sweden. Gross monthly salary for full-time equivalents, all sectors combined.

Data released SCB lönestruktur 2025 SCB · SSYK 2012 4-digit
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32 200 kr · 50th
28 600 kr10th
30 200 kr25th
32 200 kr50th
34 800 kr75th
37 400 kr90th

That is the medianhalf of people in this occupation in Sweden earn more.

Table 1 — By sector

The same job, sector by sector

Median gross monthly salary by sector, full-time equivalents. Swedish pay statistics split the private sector by manual and non-manual work. Compare private and public sector pay →

SectorMedianvs. Sweden
Sweden This page32 200 kr
Central government37 000 kr+14.9%
County council sector33 000 kr+2.5%
Private sector32 500 kr+0.9%
Manual workers private sector32 500 kr+0.9%
Public sector31 900 kr−0.9%
Primary municipalities31 800 kr−1.2%
Sources

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Wage data
Statistics Sweden (SCB), salary structure statistics (lönestrukturstatistik), 2025. Gross monthly salary, full-time equivalents.
Occupation
SSYK 2012 5120, Cooks and cold-buffet managers. Mapped to our taxonomy as cooks-and-cold-buffet-managers.

Percentiles are reported exactly as released and are never interpolated between published values. We take no payment from employers, recruiters or anyone else for how any figure is presented. Source: Statistics Sweden (SCB), open data.