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Software- and system developers

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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53 500 kr · 50th
39 600 kr10th
46 200 kr25th
53 500 kr50th
62 600 kr75th
72 600 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 page53 500 kr
Private sector53 600 kr+0.2%
Non-manual workers private sector53 600 kr+0.2%
Central government49 500 kr−7.5%
Public sector48 500 kr−9.3%
County council sector47 700 kr−10.8%
Primary municipalities45 800 kr−14.4%
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 2512, Software- and system developers. Mapped to our taxonomy as software-and-system-developers.

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.