Average Salary in Norway

[precious007]

According to a few sites the average annual salary in Norway has grown up to as of February 2012 - to $89.000 (AVERAGE)

I mean the minimum would be at least $4000.

Is anyone living in Norway right now, I want to check if these numbers are realistic.

I have a few friends there that told me that salaries have doubled since 1999 back when I left norway.... and that would mean the numbers are realistic.

Average Salary Norway 2012

[GoVegan]

Hard to believe. They have high tax rates, comprehensive laborious laws and socialized medicine. I wouldn't be surprised if their entire economy is in the dumps. If you want a good economy you need to look at Mexico. They have very low taxes and do not restrict business with a lot of labor and environmental legislation. Their medical system is amongst the best. You don't pay, you die.

[Gameness]

Salaries are in fact very high in Norway. I worked there in 2010 and made approximately 5x my Swedish salary in about 2 months.
My girlfriend is going there in April for a couple of months and she is going to be paid about 3 times her Swedish salary, they also provide her with a apartment.

[snusjus]

Hard to believe. They have high tax rates, comprehensive laborious laws and socialized medicine. I wouldn't be surprised if their entire economy is in the dumps. If you want a good economy you need to look at Mexico. They have very low taxes and do not restrict business with a lot of labor and environmental legislation. Their medical system is amongst the best. You don't pay, you die.

You just made my day.

[sgreger1]

Hard to believe. They have high tax rates, comprehensive laborious laws and socialized medicine. I wouldn't be surprised if their entire economy is in the dumps. If you want a good economy you need to look at Mexico. They have very low taxes and do not restrict business with a lot of labor and environmental legislation. Their medical system is amongst the best. You don't pay, you die.

Lol. This is a man who knows what he is talking about!

[muddyfunkstar]

Salaries are in fact very high in Norway. I worked there in 2010 and made approximately 5x my Swedish salary in about 2 months.
My girlfriend is going there in April for a couple of months and she is going to be paid about 3 times her Swedish salary, they also provide her with a apartment.

It's all relative to the cost of living, though. Norway has one of the highest costs of living in the world.

[shikitohno]

Lol. This is a man who knows what he is talking about!

Nope, it's actually a man who's talking out his ass because his response to anything socialist is "Capitalism is #1!" Norway does alright for itself, consistently maintains one of the highest standards of living for its average citizen, and if their economy takes a serious turn south, they've got a good deal of oil up north that they could tap to keep their economy afloat for at least a couple of decades if things slowed down. Norway also never joined the EU, so they've avoided some of the bigger problems the EU nations are going to face. They'll take a hit from lower trade with EU nations, but Norway won't be financing Greece's or Portugal's bailouts. Could you guys maybe bother to do some basic research before running your mouths off about a country? You're both smart guys, but it's seriously tiring to see the knee-jerk reaction to socialism, and the same tired crap about how capitalism and the free market will solve all our woes.

There's plenty of capitalist nations in Africa and Latin America that are absolute shit holes that none of you could honestly tell me you'd want to switch with the average guy making $1 a day and living in a hovel. There's also plenty of crappy country's with socialist regimes. There's a handful of fairly successful representatives of both systems, predominantly concentrated in Europe and North America. It's poor form for you guys to constantly present this false dichotomy of, "Capitalism is great, it takes care of everyone's problems and now I fart rainbows!" and "Socialism is completely evil, totally abhorrent, and it's just moments away from launching us all into the gulags!" There's plenty of shades of gray here for both systems, and neither one's perfect. You don't get to just ignore all the flaws in your preferred system and any positive examples from the one you dislike.

[lxskllr]

Nope, it's actually a man who's talking out his ass because his response to anything socialist is "Capitalism is #1!" Norway does alright for itself, consistently maintains one of the highest standards of living for its average citizen, and if their economy takes a serious turn south, they've got a good deal of oil up north that they could tap to keep their economy afloat for at least a couple of decades if things slowed down. Norway also never joined the EU, so they've avoided some of the bigger problems the EU nations are going to face. They'll take a hit from lower trade with EU nations, but Norway won't be financing Greece or Portugals bailouts. Could you guys maybe bother to do some basic research before running your mouths off about a country? You're both smart guys, but it's seriously tiring to see the knee-jerk reaction to socialism, and the same tired crap about how capitalism and the free market will solve all our woes.

There's plenty of capitalist nations in Africa and Latin America that are absolute shit holes that none of you could honestly tell me you'd want to switch with the average guy making $1 a day and living in a hovel. There's also plenty of crappy country's with socialist regimes. There's a handful of fairly successful representatives of both systems, predominantly concentrated in Europe and North America. It's poor form for you guys to constantly present this false dichotomy of, "Capitalism is great, it takes care of everyone's problems and now I fart rainbows!" and "Socialism is completely evil, totally abhorrent, and it's just moments away from launching us all into the gulags!" There's plenty of shades of gray here for both systems, and neither one's perfect. You don't get to just ignore all the flaws in your preferred system and any positive examples from the one you dislike.

sudo sarcmeter -calibrate

;^)

[Roo]

Yeah, pretty sure Vegan was trying to be funny and Greger was drunk

[shikitohno]

Where's SnusDog when I need him, lx? I don't know which side of the argument he'd fall on, but if past experience is any indicator, he could come in here and post some erudite comment to shut us all up for a while.

Edit: Ah, well there's derp moment for me. I get so used to the typical reactionary politics of this board that I missed the sarcasm when someone went for it. Figured it was another of the SnusOn libertarians railing on the evils of socialism. My bad GoVegan.

[lxskllr]

I'm not as against socialism as you might think. I think it's more worthy than the half-assed system we have now. We've got the worst attributes of each system, and few of the benefits.

[shikitohno]

I'm not talking about you lx. Sgreger is more representative of the group I'm speaking of. There's a pretty strong conservative element to the boards that worships Adam Smith and Ayn Rand, and flat out hates anything to do with socialism. Any tax increase is an abomination to them, regardless of benefits it might bring. That group. Some of them are fun guys to chat with about other stuff, but the over-simplified economic ideas they put forth can be rather disheartening and tiring to anyone who hasn't dug in too firmly into the ideological trenches.

[truthwolf1]

I wonder from the 89,000 what the average take home pay is. My guess is also that Gas, Utilities, Food, Clothing, Entertainment is also probably marked up pretty high in comparison to other countries in Europe.

[Roo]

Some quick internet research yields a range of 60-70NOK for a pint of beer at a pub. 65NOK is just over 11USD. Around the corner from where I sit in downtown Seattle, pints are currently being poured for 3USD.

Edit: but 3 is admittedly cheap and it's a dive. Most of us know what a beer costs though, $2.50 - $5. $11 is crazy. For any UK members reading, what are pints going for these days? When I was there a few years ago I remember a pint going for about 10USD -- I don't remember how many quid that amounted to at the time, it's just my conversion.

[Frankie Reloaded]

I'm not as against socialism as you might think. I think it's more worthy than the half-assed system we have now. We've got the worst attributes of each system, and few of the benefits.

I spent 22 years in the first and another 22 in the second and I tend to agree. The only problem might be that the first 22 (in a socialist country) were my childhood and youth so they might be a bit too sweet´n´nice in retrospection.