Eighty percent of the median wage is required for a “good living” in Sweden – before the minimum wage of SEK 27,360 in the public sector – abundance?

The government has announced That 80% of the average Swedish wage is required “You get a good living” In Sweden. It is therefore time to introduce a minimum wage requirement of SEK 27,360 in the public sector, including home care and care, soldiers, local hygienists and nurses’ assistants or care assistants.

The Tedolagit government said last spring that 80% of the average salary was required “You get a good living” In Sweden. and this is It has been repealed as law and has now come into effect on October 1st. With an average salary of SEK 34,200 across all sectors of society in 2022, this will reach SEK 27,360.

Furthermore, the average salary was SEK 33,900 in the public sector, SEK 38,800 in the state sector, and SEK 32,200 in the municipal sector. 25% of them had less than 27,800 Swedish krona in monthly salary and 36,700 SEK in the regional sector. The average salary in the private sector was 34,400 SEK. The statistics come from official statistics issued by Statistics Norway

Now, of course, there is free wage formation in the private sector, but when the government says that the required monthly wage is SEK 27,360 in order to provide a good livelihood, it is quite reasonable for the public sector to immediately introduce a minimum wage at that level. , so that its employees can support themselves.

Among other things, Kommunal i Umeå responded to this and called for negotiations with the employer to raise all starting salaries. The trade union newspaper Kommunalarbetaren reported. It is of course shameful that people in low-paid professions in the public sector are unable to make a living from their jobs, and this includes, for example, soldiers who earn one of the lowest wages in Sweden, home care, care, and local hygienists. Nurses and care assistants.

According to statistics from Statistics Norway, more than 50% of soldiers earn less than a good livelihood and more than 25% of receptionist assistant nurses, as well as more than 50% of all care assistants, to name a few.

Umeå municipality’s demands are reasonable now that Tedolagit has said what it takes to earn a wage to be able to live in Sweden, and hopefully these demands will spread all the way up to the national trade union level. Is it time for a general strike if minimum wage levels in the public sector are not reached?

Then there are a number of professions in the private sector whose wages are lower than the good living wage, but perhaps the social partners should decide the wages themselves? But the public had its say in black and white with the Riksdag striking the Tedolagate bill.

Statistics Norway reports the salary spread as the median (50th percentile), median salary, and the 10%, 25%, 75%, and 90% percentiles, meaning that it is not possible to obtain figures more precise than “over 25 %”. “And the like.