Salary
– in Norway
The right salary
NowGuide will reveal the true figures for you, but in fact for the Norwegian market for a long time it has been the case that salary is a personal matter and a relationship between the employer and the employee. Here you get the salary history in English, for more than 100 occupations.
Yet, to give you the right possibility to compete in the Norwegian market, we would like to ask you: What is the right salary for your work?
This depends on how you choose to play the game. To be clear, any worker in Norway is entitled to the same salary as a Norwegian worker, but you may choose not to request this. However, make sure you don’t agree to less than the minimum salary if you are employed.
Why not go for the maximum salary?
Norway is in a turnaround situation and is looking for possibilities to offer more cost efficient solutions and production. Even though there is great growth in exports, transport and companies help to cultivate efficiency and turnarounds in other businesses. If you are a good worker but ask for a lower salary than the rest of the market, what will your chances be in the work market then? You may prove to be the person a company is looking for. The best place to have this strategy is where the owner of the company is the one setting your salary.
The Norwegian market has been used to set salaries according to the idea that higher is better and at least that your salary should be the same as your coworkers’ doing the same work. Now you will know where to position yourself.
Why do I need to know?
When you finally get a job offer, the salary will be a topic for you. It will be of value to know if this offer is in accordance with the market and to be informed so you can have an open and honest discussion. The fact that you are informed will also mean you are given respect. This is very valuable.
In the private sector you will seldom find any information about salary in the work advert. No one will want you to just work for money; they will want you to be interested in the company and the work tasks. Another reason is that companies try not to compete on salary and they will not push the salary up to the next level if they do not have to.
The salary in a private business is not an open topic at the workplace among workers if it is not handled by a work labor union.
In the public sector, you may find some codes for the salary, a min – max code. We have a list of the figures that the codes represent.
To be able to plan you stay, and your Norwegian life, it is of interest to ensure that the salary for your skills covers your living costs. This list will give you a fair chance to know what your salary might be, and remember this average is not the maximum salary.
When you know the Norwegian salary you may see that there is a significant gap from what you are used to, as Norway is well-known for its high salaries.
What occupations are covered?
We have a list of more than 100 occupations; giving you an insight into the most common jobs in Norway.
As there is an increasing demand in Norway for healthcare and not enough Norwegian health workers to cover this need, many people will find the 15 occupations within public health of great interest, which covers positions from cleaning and homecare to specialists This may also be compared with the 3 private listed occupations.
Many foreign handymen have already worked in the building and construction industry in Norway, and here we will list 13 of the most common trades.
Different service occupations have the need for adaptable people and yet many non-Norwegians do the majority of the jobs. You will therefore find 12 occupations covered within the Hotel and Restaurant industry and within Transport and Communications.
As Oil and Gas have been an important part of business in Norway since the ‘70s, we also cover this topic as well as work at kindergartens.
You can find more topics in the contents of the main article.
Contents of the full article
- Health
- Building and Construction
- Legal
- Creative professions
- Hotel and Restaurant
- Oil and Gas
- Media
- Industry
- Kindergarten
- School
- Transport and Communications
- Retail
- Economy, Admin and IT
