Electrician Salary in Norway (Elektriker) 2026
What does an electrician earn in Norway? Compare your pay with Statistics Norway's figures for electricians (2025) in the private sector, local and central government, check it against the generally applicable minimum wage for electricians, and see your take-home pay after tax.
Last updated . Figures are for the 2026 tax year.
Only sectors where SSB publishes figures for at least 200 full-time jobs are listed.
Base pay in your job as in the contract or payslip, excluding overtime.
Evening, night and weekend supplements, other irregular allowances and bonus. SSB counts these in monthly pay, but not overtime.
Your pay is converted to a full-time equivalent before the comparison, because the SSB figures are for full-time employees.
Only used to compare with the generally applicable minimum wage. It does not affect the SSB comparison.
Your pay at full time
NOK 50,000
Per month, fixed + extras (NOK 600,000 a year)
Median 2025 (SSB)
NOK 54,800
Electricians, all sectors
Difference from median
−NOK 4,800
−8.8% per month
Average (SSB)
NOK 54,230
Difference −NOK 4,230
Lower to upper quartile
48.3–61.3k
The middle half earns between these
Take-home per month
NOK 37,985
Of NOK 50,000 gross, 2026 tax rules
At NOK 50,000 a month converted to full time, you are at about the 32nd percentile (you earn more than roughly 32 in 100 people in the group) among full-time electricians in all sectors. The placement is approximate: SSB publishes only the quartiles and the median, and the calculator draws straight lines between them.
Fixed pay only: NOK 50,000 at full time, against a median agreed monthly salary of NOK 52,050 (all sectors, without allowances and bonus).
Generally applicable minimum wage: electrical installation trades
Your fixed pay equals NOK 307.69 an hour at 37.5hours a week. The minimum for "skilled worker doing skilled work (faglært)" is NOK 270.45 an hour (from 15 June 2025), about NOK 43,948 a month at full time. You are NOK 37.24 an hour above it.
Applies to businesses that install, assemble and maintain electrical installations for automation, data, telecommunications and similar, and to employees doing that work. Skilled means a trade certificate (fagbrev), DSB approval or equivalent training; foreign certificates approved by NOKUT count as Norwegian ones. Does not apply to apprentices, people on labour market measures or offshore petroleum operations, or where you are covered by more favourable terms.
The SSB figures are for November 2025 and come before the 2026 pay settlements. If you have had a raise since then, you will look a little better in the comparison than you would against current figures. Your effective tax rate on this pay is 24.0%. In a normal month with standard table withholding, about NOK 35,816 is paid out; in December (or November), when only half is withheld, about NOK 42,908.
How it works
This calculator compares an electrician's (elektriker) pay in Norway with the official statistics from Statistics Norway (SSB), split by private sector, local government and central government, and with the generally applicable minimum wage for the electrical trades. Enter your fixed pay and any extras, and you see roughly where you fall in the pay distribution and what you take home after tax. All figures are gross monthly pay in NOK unless stated otherwise.
Certificate and requirements for working as an electrician
The electrician trade is a vocational programme that combines school years with an apprenticeship in a company. According to Utdanning.no, the supervisory authorities require a trade certificate (fagbrev) for an electrician to work independently, and an electrician must be employed by a registered electrical installation firm or by an industrial company. After the certificate you can take two more years at a technical college (fagskole).
Electrician pay in 2025
In November 2025 SSB counted about 31,456 full-time jobs for electricians, and the median pay was NOK 54,800. That is NOK 3,170 below the median for all occupations (NOK 57,970), and 3.9% more than the year before. 97% of the jobs are in the private sector, which in SSB's classification also includes publicly owned companies, so the figures for local and central government rest on few people.
| Occupation and sector | Lower quartile | Median | Upper quartile | Average | Full-time jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electricians | NOK 48,250 | NOK 54,800 | NOK 61,300 | NOK 54,230 | 31,456 |
| Local government (municipalities and counties) | NOK 46,210 | NOK 49,480 | NOK 54,550 | NOK 50,450 | 393 |
| Central government (incl. hospital trusts) | NOK 49,290 | NOK 55,450 | NOK 67,820 | NOK 58,830 | 476 |
| Private sector and public enterprises | NOK 48,310 | NOK 54,860 | NOK 61,320 | NOK 54,210 | 30,587 |
Monthly pay for full-time employees in November 2025, including irregular allowances and bonuses, excluding overtime. Source: Statistics Norway (SSB) table 11418.The first row for each occupation is all sectors. "Full-time jobs" are full-time equivalents.
SSB's monthly pay is the agreed monthly salary plus irregular allowances and bonuses for full-time employees. For electricians the average was NOK 3,400 higher than the agreed salary alone. Overtime is not counted, and self-employed people are not covered, so an electrician who owns an installation firm is not represented here.
Minimum wage and collective agreement for the electrical trades
Norway has no general minimum wage, but a collective agreement can be made legally binding for a whole industry by a public board (Tariffnemnda), which is called making it generally applicable (allmenngjort). The electrical trades are one of the industries where this has been done, for parts of the national collective agreement (Landsoverenskomsten for elektrofagene). The regulation covers businesses that install, assemble and maintain electrical installations for automation, data, telecommunications and similar, and the employees who do that work. It has two rates: one for skilled workers doing skilled work and one for other employees. It does not apply to apprentices, people on labour market measures or offshore petroleum operations, or where you have more favourable terms.
| Electrical installation trades | Per hour | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skilled worker doing skilled work (faglært) | NOK 270.45 | NOK 43,948 | NOK 527,378 |
| Other employees | NOK 241.77 | NOK 39,288 | NOK 471,452 |
Generally applicable minimum wage from 15 June 2025, converted with 37.5 hours a week and 52 weeks. Source: the Labour Inspection Authority (Arbeidstilsynet) and the regulation on generally applicable collective agreements for the electrical trades.
The collective agreement itself is a separate, higher level of pay for employers that are bound by it. The agreement for 2026 to 2028 sets these fixed hourly rates from 1 May 2026:
| Category | Legal minimum wage (from 15 June 2025) | Collective agreement (from 1 May 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Skilled worker doing skilled work (faglært) | NOK 270.45 | NOK 282.95 |
| Other employees / without a trade certificate | NOK 241.77 | NOK 254.27 |
The regulation applies until the wage board makes a new decision, and the rates shown are those published by the Labour Inspection Authority when this page was updated. The rates in the regulation are based on the previous agreement, so check whether they have been updated. The comparison in the calculator uses the legal minimum wage.
Worked example
An electrician at an installation firm earns NOK 300.00 an hour in a 80% position, plus on average NOK 3,000 a month in allowances. The calculator gives:
| Employer and position | Installation firm (private sector), 80% position, 30 hours a week |
|---|---|
| Fixed pay | NOK 300.00 an hour = NOK 39,000 a month |
| Extras (average) | NOK 3,000 a month |
| Converted to full time | NOK 52,500 a month |
| SSB median, electricians in the private sector | NOK 54,860 |
| Difference from the median | −NOK 2,360 |
| Placement | at about the 41st percentile (you earn more than roughly 41 in 100 people in the group) |
| Minimum wage, skilled worker doing skilled work (faglært) | NOK 270.45 an hour, so NOK 29.55 an hour above it |
| Collective-agreement rate for a skilled worker (1 May 2026) | NOK 282.95 an hour, so NOK 17.05 an hour above it |
| Take-home, 2026 rules | about NOK 32,673 a month on average |
Electrician pay after tax
The table taxes the SSB monthly pay as if it were earned all year. Your employer withholds tax using a tax table, so see the Norway tax table calculator for how a normal month and December differ, and the Norway income tax calculator for how yearly tax is calculated.
| Electricians | Gross per month | Take-home per month | Effective tax rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lower quartile | NOK 48,250 | NOK 36,823 | 23.7% |
| Median | NOK 54,800 | NOK 41,172 | 24.9% |
| Average | NOK 54,230 | NOK 40,794 | 24.8% |
| Upper quartile | NOK 61,300 | NOK 45,403 | 25.9% |
SSB monthly pay for 2025 × 12, taxed under the 2026 rules with only the standard deduction and the personal allowance. Take-home per month is the yearly amount divided by 12, so it smooths out the months with no or half withholding.
Women, men and pay growth
| Occupation | Median, women | Median, men | Median 2024 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electricians | NOK 48,740 | NOK 54,980 | NOK 52,720 | 3.9% |
Median monthly pay, full-time employees, all sectors, November 2025 against November 2024. Source: SSB table 11418.
If you have just moved to Norway
- A foreign trade certificate that NOKUT has approved counts as a Norwegian one for the minimum wage regulation. Electrical work in Norway also has requirements for who may carry it out, and the supervisory authorities should be your first stop before you plan to work independently.
- Ask your employer whether you are covered by a collective agreement and by the regulation on the electrical trades. If you are, the hourly rates in the table above are a floor.
- Overtime carries a legal supplement of at least 50% under the regulation, and 100% at night and on Sundays and public holidays. See the Norway overtime pay calculator for the general overtime rules.
- Your employer withholds tax from every payslip using your tax deduction card (skattekort). With table withholding there is normally no tax withheld in one month in the summer and half in November or December. If you have no tax deduction card you do not get that reduction.
Other industries with a legal minimum wage are listed in the Norway minimum wage calculator. For another skilled occupation, see the software developer salary calculator.
What this calculator does not cover
It does not cover self-employed electricians, overtime, shift or travel supplements, apprentices, or the pay scales in individual company agreements. It compares your hourly rate with the legal minimum wage only, not with your collective agreement. It does not include pension or holiday pay, and the tax estimate uses standard deductions only for a person taxed at the ordinary rate. The SSB figures describe all full-time electricians in 2025, so your own pay compared with them is a guide, not a verdict on what you should earn.
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