Monthly pay restated to full time, and SCB's high economic standard
Swedish pay is quoted by the month, and the official earnings distribution follows suit. Medlingsinstitutet's wage structure statistics, which SCB publishes, take each job's basic pay plus variable supplements and benefits and restate it to full time, so a 75% post counts at what it would pay for a full week. Overtime pay, a 13th or 14th month's salary and profit shares are left out. In 2025 the median was 38 300 kr a month, one job in ten paid under 28 000 kr and the top 10% started at 61 700 kr. The calculator divides your annual salary by 12 before ranking it, which matches a contract quoted as a monthly wage.
The spread differs by sector. The top 10% of private-sector jobs began at 64 600 kr, against 55 700 kr in the public sector.
The wage statistics are published for eight large NUTS 2 regions only, so the calculator ranks pay against the whole country. SCB's county income statistics measure something wider: total earned income of everyone aged 20 to 64 who lived in Sweden all year, which adds pensions and benefits such as sickness and parental benefit to pay and counts people with part-time or little work. A full-time salary would rank higher on that table than it deserves, so it is shown here for context only. The median in Stockholm county was 435 800 kr a year in 2024, against 373 600 kr on Gotland.
SCB publishes an official high-income measure, which it calls high economic standard: household disposable income per consumption unit of at least twice the national median. In 2024, 7.2% of people lived above it, and 12.7% in Stockholm county. Below 60% of the median SCB counts a low economic standard, which covered 13.1%.
SCB divides by its own consumption units, worked out from household budgets: 1.51 for a couple, 0.52 for the first child and 0.42 for each further child up to 19. Children weigh far more there than on the EU's modified OECD scale (0.3 each, under 14). The household lens here uses Eurostat's EU-SILC figures for Sweden on the EU scale, so that the poverty line, the median and the distribution share one basis, and draws the high line at twice that median, the rule SCB applies. The EU at-risk-of-poverty line for a single adult was 196 001 kr a year, with 15.6% of people below it.
A salary of 45,000 kronor a month, 540,000 a year, sits above the national median of 38 300 kr and below the 61 700 kr at which the top 10% of jobs start. In Stockholm county, the wider earned-income measure had a median of 435 800 kr, which is why county figures are not used to rank a salary.