Finnish net salaries are higher than in Sweden, but lower than in Norway, a new Eurostat survey finds
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/04/02/which-european-countries-have-the-best-salaries-after-taxes
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Finnish net salaries are higher than in Sweden, but lower than in Norway, a new Eurostat survey finds
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/04/02/which-european-countries-have-the-best-salaries-after-taxes
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Salaries in Sweden for skilled labor are in general lower than in other Nordic countries and Western European countries. For example, as a senior developer in Stockholm with 10+ years of experience and a masters degree, it’s practically unheard of to make over 75k kr per month (around 6900 euro per month) before taxes unless you work for one of the handful of companies that actually are willing to pay higher salaries for talent like Google or Spotify. In Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, or the UK as a talented senior developer you can make much more money.
Sweden is in general a terrible place to live if you care about disposable income. You’ll live a fantastic life regardless on that kind of salary, but if you want to be upper middle class as an experienced developer I recommend taking your skills elsewhere.
Source: I live in Sweden and work in the IT industry
I do not believe. I work in nordics based company and we all get about the same pay, and swedish has much higher net salaries because of that. That is constant biggering subject that they pay the same even though we finnish have much higher income taxes.
I would have believed if the median would have been higher, but the average…. I need to think about this
Cant believe this. Finland has a medium of 4 200 gross salary if you work full time. Median
Is 3 800.
32e/h for finland as the article says is simply too high.
Yeah because nothing fucking works here anymore. Good luck with that extra 100€ when you get sick or unemployed.
I think they have come up with that hourly wage by dividing average salary 4000€ Yearly 48k€ by average work hours 1531
48000/1531=31.35€/hr
But the average yearly hours of 1531 is pretty low with normal 37.5hours/week even with concidering yearly vacation of 30days. As full time employee average work time is 1600-1700hours per year, but that does not take into account holidays. so it inflates the hourly wage, by accounting also the holidays salary to the work hours.
Article says hourly wage after taxes 32.6€(so about 50€/h before taxes?), yeah sure, for CEO’s maybe.
More reality is 12€(10 after taxes) for hour basic/low(fastfood/cleaning/industrial etc) level job.
Range varies a lot, ive seen: construction worker 12€ on bad TES 15 on better one, professional way more, electrician, depends again of things but start may be 15 to 18€/h. Dock workers start from 18€/h..
Upper class worker salaries i can only guess, propably skyhigh
And these dont raise exponentially every year, so, im quite sure 50€/hour(non-taxed, thats how salaries are told in Finland) is BS
Everything else is cheaper in Sweden… Groceries, alcohol, snus, cars and gasoline. Well everything except housing.
Absolutely misleading for Finland. Statistics Finland puts median full-time earnings at €3,611/month in 2024 and average earnings at €4,070/month for reference. A figure of roughly €32/hour net is not representative of ordinary Finnish pay, not even all too 1% can make that. On a full-time that would mean about €5,547 net per month, which would require well above €100,000 gross annually in Finland depending on tax circumstances.
Stinks AI journalism and 💩
No one mentions the fact that the Swedish krona has lost significant value against the euro, which completely skews any salary comparison done in euro terms? Sweden has had roughly the same nominal wage growth as Finland over the past ten years, yet Swedish salaries appear to have barely increased in euros because the SEK has depreciated over 12% against the euro since 2016.
They link to statistics about labour cost. Not salaries. Just disregard the whole article.