Salaries in Denmark - 20+ Real Examples (with Payslips!)
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- Опубліковано 22 тра 2023
- People in the DK Finance sub-reddit (have been sharing their payslips with each other, and in this video I'll share 20+ of them with you: / dkfinance
Keep in mind that while these are all real (see the payslips!) they're not an absolute representation of what EVERYONE in Denmark earns. But it will give you some perspective
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Hi Mario! Thank you for sharing, it's a really interesting point of view from the emplyees perspective. I'd love if you could some day make a video about entrepreneurs and starting a business in Denmark. I know you've talked about your experience while you were studying and I'd love to hear more about the steps you had to go through when putting the ideas in motion
Thanks! I'm planning to make a free email course on entrepreneurship, aiming to put it together in the next weeks
@@MarioScianHQ An unrelated question to this post.. Should the vages presented here not include holliday pay ?. It seems to me that this is a very real part of our vage here in Denmark. Savings for retirement seems to be relevant aswell, though ofcause to most, in the far future..
Btw. thx. for a good channel, I dont agree with some of your opinions, but you present them well, and seem to try and be honost about your perspective !
In case you were wondering. 1 Kroner is 15 US cents.
the humble one who works in a shop is part time btw might be worth to mention
Oh 😮
Hi Mario! I'm really enjoying your videos about Denmark, and after this video I have a question. What is considered a good starting salary in Denmark for someone with 2-3 years of experience? Thanks :)
Depends on your area - 2-3 years of experience in AI coding will pay much better than 2-3 years experience in some artistic profession :)
God video! Can you put the link of the website, pleasee?
Congratulations for the great work!
It's reddit: www.reddit.com/r/dkfinance/
Hi Mario. I hope you can also make a video about buying a car, used, brand new, whatever. Thank you. 🙂
I've one on exchanging your driver's license next week 😀
As a person who bought a car last year in Copenhagen, you should know: 1) cars are ridiculously expensive in Denmark for no reason (you buy 1 extra car as a gift to the state through taxes) 2) used cars are also super expensive, mainly because car production is low (probably intentionally) 3) if you live in Copenhagen and have easy access to the metro, it's unlikely that a car is significantly faster or more convenient, usually it makes more financial sense to rent a car short term (eg share now). Personally, I've used the car to travel to Sweden and Germany, but financially the purchase made 0 sense, it would have been cheaper for me to just rent every time for multiple years. If you live in more remote suburbs that the metro doesn't reach, cars become significantly more worthwhile.
Hej Mario, thanks for this video, giving a little insight in what one could expect as outcome living in Denmark.
I was wondering if you could post the link to that website you mentioned at 13:34? It sounds like “mid loan” but googling that didn’t help 😅
Thank you!
Can't remember that one sorry :D
Hi Mario! I am about to start my PhD at the University of Aarhus. My monthly basic salary is approximately DKK 33K plus the DKK 1.4K PhD supplement. Additionally, in my case because I am a foreigner, have a fixed-term contract of less than 5 years and was recruited from outside of Denmark, I applied for the "pension exemption" scheme, which means that I will be paid together with my monthly salary an amount equivalent to the pension calculated at 17.1% of my basic salary. What I don't quite understand is whether the sum of all of the above, which is approximately DKK 40K per month will have the same tax rate or whether any part of it is deductible.
Having said all this, I'm not really clear on how much my salary will be after tax and that has me worried. I understand it's not that low, but I'm going with my wife, who won't be working there and I don't want to be financially pressured either.
By any chance could anyone give me an idea of how much I might be getting after-tax? Do you think it is a decent salary for a couple to live on in Aarhus?
Hey - This site will help you calculate: hvormegetefterskat.dk/ - 40K == 25K after tax which is very tight IMO for having two people live from that, especially if you want to travel at some point, etc.
Hey plz help me i also want to apply for PHD in same University..am from India can you pls share an estimate what will be my expenses to do phd there how much money do i need yearly
If someone is traveling for the first time to Denmark in January. Clothes to carry to weight winter.
Remember, that all benefits, that you pay for ex. internet are half price, if reducted before you pay taxes ;-)
Yes
Hi Mario . How are you. Can you tell me the the monthly salary of a waiter or any labour in Copenhagen as per 36 hours working hours in a week. Thank you and God bless you. Please answer me
Don't know, you can check in the forum for examples for that specifically
The best video i have seen. You got to the subject directly. Amazing ! . How much make a physiotherapist in Denmark ? 😊😊😊 Does anyone know ? Thank you !
In the other video linked there's an Excel sheet you can refer to with salaries
@@MarioScianHQ Thank you so much . 🥺♥️🥹 I Will look for it.
Hello Mario,
I would like to know some information concerning average salary for an engineer with 14 years of experience, along with master's in Engineering . Do you have any idea where could I find it ?
That specific I don't know, check in the Reddit forum?
Hi Mario! Is the pension considered as part of the net salary?
No, the net salary is what you get in hand now - pension contributions are a different line item
@@MarioScianHQcan you choose for the pension to be withdrawn and use that money as well and not be placed in some pension fund?
No u can't not
@@cristi8276 it depends, if it's pension payout - no, then it has to go to a pension scheme because it's tax deductible (basically you postpone payment of it for when you retire). But some companies do not have pension schemes or not mandatory ones, so in those cases you can decide how much you want to put into your pension (possibly nothing).
Hi, I got an offer of 45000 dkr plus 17.1% pension in Copenhagen. Would it be enough to have a comfortable life?? I am surprised how retail and labour jobs are making more than Master and PhDs. Can you please advise? I would be moving from Australia
45K is average not especially high but without kids you can live a good life
that would be a pretty standard level for a "good job", as you can see on the numbers presented here many people make something in that range.
Hi Mario. Love your vids. Do you think someone from Bosnia can get a job in DK? Thanks
If you've the right skills it doesn't matter if you're from Bosnia, Sweden or Korea :)
I tried apply for a few dev jobs just out of interest, with no serious intention of moving to Denmark. I got some instant rejections and have 5 years of experience.
I work as a senior scientist for a big pharmaceutical company in the UK. I get 27200 DKK after tax per month despite having a PhD and years of postdoc. I earn less than the garbage collector in Denmark.
Blue collars get paid relatively strong salaries here
no you don't. a garbage collector makes much less than that..
The different with our income in west Jutland are too big gap, this is really heart broken
Good call out on the geographical scope
Are the salaries in west Jutland much lower?
Hey Mario, this channel is amazing! Soo many great information! Qq: I got an offer for 74k DKK per month (pension on top). Is this enough for a family of 3 to live a stress free (financially) life? I’m a senior IT manager and will work for a medium company.
That’s a good salary but if only income you can’t splurge much, but it’s good
No you will starve and end up on the street with such a low salary that is 2.5 times higher than the average one.
Do they taxes annual income taxes after those monthly deductions?
That's the income after all taxes
I came here to get depressed
Why depressed?
Are u from denmark??
she is an ambitious one and maybe totally forgot that Denmark is a career killer
you are beautiful female
Hi Mario,
70k + 10% , is this gud salary before tax with special tax scheme,
We are family of 4 not sure how much will be take home after tax .. if you can help in giving some insight
Yes it's good, esp. with the expat tax scheme
@@MarioScianHQ thanks Mario, any idea how much it will be in hand ?
@@sphm380 around 40k.
Appreciate your expert advice.
Any architects working in Denmark want to share their earning levels here? It would be much appreciated
Hai sir, may i know how much salary tax for foreigners?
Same as Danes, except if you earn a very high salary you can get a special expat deal
Don't get me wrong I don't want to downgrade any jobs but I'm an educated waiter and chef I was working in 3 different countries most of the time in fine dining and in some Michelin star restaurants in the past 27 yrs and a garbage man makes 10000 dkk more (without any special education) after tax is ridiculous
Trades/hand workers/blue collar types get paid very well in Denmark relatively speaking, it was shocking to me when I moved as well
There's AI engineers making less than that lol
Denmark is a pretty egalitarian country. They appreciate hard work just as much as other kinds of efforts. Garbagemen wake at 3 and do a dirty job. Could/would you do that? Why not? You got the answer to the higher salary. As a waiter you also have benefits like free food, tips etc. Garbagemen don't. What is amazing about Denmark is that every single person makes an actual living wage.
Let us be honest: fine.. we spend so much to send ourselves to secondary schools and universities so we instinctively expect to recover all of such expenses not to mention the mental drain to attain highest academic grades handsomely from high incomes + low taxes. Well, on one part I strongly hold the notion that all world nations can provide superb social amenities to their citizens with zero taxes charged. Yes I repeat, with zero income tax charge if and only if all world governments (including countries that claim to be socialist/ egalitarianist in nature e.g Finland , Sweden , Norway , Denmark but in reality they also collaborate with mega super powers to structure society into oligarchs- powerless masses ) they could deter from unclassified demonic agendas such as investing in wars of all kinds, Space exploration programs, money laundering to satisfy the excessive material needs of plutocrats and autocrats world wide, exploitation of natural resources from developing nations. They made us believe through fabricated fake theories that income tax and other related types from struggling citizens will provide equal wealth satisfaction and Ultimum social welfare services for all but we can all see that paying income taxes do not guarantee VIP social welfare for esp struggling citizens as it is currently and conspicuously manifesting in USA and Canada wherein people complain of long waiting hours for doctors' appt and substandard medical services etc and you imagine why more doctors aren't recruited to provide best medical services for their growing populations since taxes are collected , poor water supply etc) otherwise people won't be angry nor complain of living frugally after working so hard while you hear your political leaders buying vacation houses, cruise ships, setting up billion dollar businesses ( they evade taxes cos they know it is simply to create top bottom social structure) ; as long as a lot of the human populations are at the bottom begging the government for basic needs and peanuts so they feel exclusively powerful and distinctively privileged. Ideally, low skilled workers partake in strenuous jobs (physical exhausting jobs that can deform you or shorten your life span as you grow older) than say an online marketing job. Imagine a garbage driver who has to be behind the steering wheel for most part of the day or a construction worker who has to work outdoors under harsh weather conditions or miners who have to hit, slam with heavy tools that may make their hands swell, so if countries like Denmark deduct a small fraction of tax from their salaries/wages, they are very understanding then cos some countries don't care about the nature of these low skilled to semi skilled jobs. No social benefits for them, and they could be paid far below the minimum wage. They end up as petty thieves , hooligans and street urchins because they feel they work so hard ( in fact some of these labour work require the consumption of weed, cocaine , codeine or serious pain killers to keep them active than office jobs). While many high skilled workers enjoy heaters or air conditioners in plush offices from which they claim to be a reason to deduct high taxes from their salaries. The class of workers who engage in menial jobs work dirty. Imagine having to clean stinking toilets and bathrooms or a waste collector Having to inhale various municipal waste for hours. So I think to compensate them for such degrading jobs, even if the salary is the same as an online marketer or an entry level engineer, some countries with a streak of human conscience sensibly deduct a small percentage of tax from their income. There is no paradise on earth folks but some countries are more compassionate in wealth distribution than others. I think Denmark portrays that but to uphold the motto of class society , have to make living costs so expensive so that you do not have enough to be financially independent and as privileged as your political figures or rich circles.
Its pretty simple, few want to take out the garbage, so they pay them enough to take the job. job needs to get done.
Are these monthly salarys? Are the in DK or USD?
Monthly in Danish kroner
Hello Sir. This video really impressed me. How can i get job in Denmark? I am from India and have a wide experience to work in shipping and architecture company. Will you please help me Or guide me?
I can't help you find a job in Denmark, sorry
Hello Mario thanks for the help you're providing to your videos.
I live in Greece and I'm married and i want to move in Copenhagen to live with my wife .
Is there any government office that i can go and register myself as unemployed in Copenhagen and probably help me to find a job ?
If so what's the name and adress or website of this office?
You can't just come and claim unemployment benefits here as far as I know
@@MarioScianHQ I'm a citizen of a Country of the European Union my friend, so there must be an office for someone that moves there rents a house and he goes to an Government office to search for work .. or am I wrong ?
How about blue collar jobs? Like electricians and plombers?
You can also see that as well. Take this example of a roofer: www.reddit.com/r/dkfinance/comments/13ae6py/solcellemont%C3%B8rtagl%C3%A6gger_m%C3%A5nedsl%C3%B8nnet/
If a expat makes 26000 Denmark krone how much tax will be deducted?
Check hvormegetefterskat.dk
Is 12 euro per hour @ 10 hours per day a good salary??
Damn... A PhD and 10y+ of experience in molecular biology to end up earning less than the garbage truck guy... Makes you reconsider the whole purpose of long studies.
It probably says more about academia in the public sector. It's not paid very well at all (in comparison to other things). They do get a ton of nice benefits though and a very high degree of job security, so it's not all bad.
Yep but it's just one example here, I wouldn't expect all PhDs with so much experience to be paid that? But I don't know
And I bet the garbage truck person is a higly educated expat as well.
@@sol55555 THE GARBAGE GUY IS DANISH BECAUSE THEY ONLY HIRE DANES THERE AND THE PHD GUY IS FOREIGNER
@@augustuswarglewinkle6328 Depends on where in the academic ladder they are. If not tenured, they have very little job security.
These are all good paychecks!
Standard pay in Denmark is about 1.700-1.841 USD. after tax.
The low income, and middle pay-gap is quite large.
The low income is quite high relatively speaking
Relative to what?
You mean the low income is high, compared to other countries?
If so, does that include the cost of living, or just the net income?
"standard pay" you mean more like minimum wage. in many countries that would be quite a bit higher than minimum wage.
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I'm sorry but i fail to see the point.
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Where're the doctor 😢
You should check on Reddit 😀
Is one of these salary slip yours as well?😋😋
haha not in this video
If the salaries are in krones, then they suck!
Comparing to?
@@MarioScianHQ Ignore me, I thought those were annual figures.
We don't pay for school so u have space 45k dollar for minimum 18 to 22 years good luck a better place to live
@@lennartjessen4864 Denmark is an awesome place to live, I've visited the country recently.
I know dk has a high tax but we don't have so much self pay like so many other countries. So in long run we have all round high living place.
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I hope this gives some perspective and helps out 😀. But you can see 100+ more in Reddit - again DK Finance. Thank you for all those over there who shared their payslips!
Is that per month Mario?
Yes
the taxes are roberry
The investing taxes are much worse
really depends on your perspective, your taxes pay for free schooling at all levels (including university), free healthcare, but the most expensive part it pays for - is poor people. so people who for whatever reason cannot get a job(disabled or mentally ill etc), so they can afford a decent place to live, food on the table, nothing fancy but they can get by instead of living on the streets. This means there aren't very many homeless people, unlike many other places you don't find a lot of beggars or just generally very many people who are in desperate need of money. The problem with desperate people is that they do desperate things, crime being the primary one, because if you can't afford food, you will do whatever it takes. And this is how you build a country where people are generally not too unhappy with how things are. Does it mean that especially those who make a lot of money get less rich? yes. And that's fair enough, the strongest should contribute the most.
2k euros 😂per month is like 😂
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