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Security guards

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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35 000 kr · 50th
31 600 kr10th
33 200 kr25th
35 000 kr50th
37 300 kr75th
39 300 kr90th

That is the medianhalf of security guards 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 page35 000 kr
Private sector35 000 kr+0.0%
Manual workers private sector35 000 kr+0.0%
Public sector34 400 kr−1.7%
Central government34 400 kr−1.7%
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 5413, Security guards. Mapped to our taxonomy as security-guards-se.

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.