Emma Löfgren

1 week ago | thelocal.se | Emma Löfgren

Sweden's median salary rose to 37,100 kronor in 2024, according to new figures posted by Statistics Sweden at 8am on June 17th. This means there's a new minimum monthly salary non-EU workers have to earn to be eligible for a work permit, as the work permit salary threshold is tied to 80 percent of the median salary. It previously stood at 28,480 kronor before tax, but as of June 17th it's gone up to 29,680 kronor.

1 week ago | thelocal.se | Emma Löfgren

At the turn of the year, 10,587,700 people were listed in Sweden’s population register, an increase of around 36,000 people on the year before, according to the Tax Agency. It found 485,028 people with active coordination numbers – a number given to newly arrived immigrants who do not yet qualify for a personnummer, the ten-digit identity code that unlocks a wide range of Swedish services, from banks to gym cards. But it also found a few discrepancies.

1 week ago | thelocal.se | Emma Löfgren

The material was used to present children with different situations to aid them in discussing their emotions and feelings, the Dagens Nyheter newspaper reports. The images included, among other things, a monkey in a hijab surrounded by humans as well as a group of monkeys shouting at each other while wearing shirts with the word orten on them. Orten comes from the word förort, and refers to suburbs of Sweden's major cities with a large immigrant community.

1 week ago | thelocal.se | Emma Löfgren

Sweden’s number-crunching agency, Statistics Sweden, is expected to release the new median salary figure when it publishes its annual statistics on the Swedish labour market at 8am on June 17th. The Local will publish it as soon as we have it. The median salary currently stands at 35,600 kronor (technically that’s the median in the year 2023, and the figure to be released on Tuesday is for the year 2024).

2 weeks ago | thelocal.se | Emma Löfgren

Food prices including non-alcoholic beverages rose 0.2 percent in May, compared to April. In one year, grocery prices have increased 5.2 percent, with coffee, chocolate and dairy products behind most of the increase. Coffee prices only rose 0.6 percent compared to April, but a cup of coffee is 47 percent more expensive than last year, according to Statistics Sweden. The price increases are slowing down, however. In April the year-on-year increase was 5.5 percent.