Journalists and related professionals
Sweden. Gross monthly salary for full-time equivalents, all sectors combined.
Data released SCB lönestruktur 2025
SCB · SSYK 2012 4-digit
Fig. 1 — The wage rule
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43 700 kr · 50th
33 300 kr10th
37 000 kr25th
43 700 kr50th
51 400 kr75th
60 200 kr90th
That is the median — half 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 →
| Sector | Median | vs. Sweden |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden This page | 43 700 kr | — |
| Public sector | 47 700 kr | +9.2% |
| Central government | 47 700 kr | +9.2% |
| Private sector | 43 700 kr | +0.0% |
| Non-manual workers private sector | 43 700 kr | +0.0% |
Sources
How this page was made
- Wage data
- Statistics Sweden (SCB), salary structure statistics (lönestrukturstatistik), 2025. Gross monthly salary, full-time equivalents.
- Occupation
- SSYK 2012 2642, Journalists and related professionals. Mapped to our taxonomy as journalists-and-related-professionals.
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.