This is nice, and should give a good picture of the industry as a whole.
The data probably masks those who are self-employed subcontractors and take a lower salary in order to lower taxes at profit time, which should effectivly double or tripple the reported salary.
Ofcourse, it does get a bit difficult to compare this data vs USA, because we have social necessities already payed for by the high tax of the collective workforce, such as health care, pensions, safety, and many other insurances.
So, say average is 42 000sek per month, that gives about 59 000USD per year salary. Which may seem low compared to USA, but behind those 59 000USD, is 31.49% in taxes for things we enjoy.
it would fail on the public good criteria, that is the law is aimed at improving recycling rates not harming companies bottom line. If there was some protectionism going on it would be different. It should have the effect of making companies improve repairability (is that a word?) to make themselves more attractive to buyers.
I'm sorry, but how do you develop a worldview where "public good" is determined via corporate lawsuits? Is it simply in the intention of the law? Because from what I can see of the history of ISDS, harming a companies bottom line is the exact criteria by which these cases are judged. Outside of the tobacco labelling suit, I am hard pressed to find a case where ISDS did not result in a ruling against a government.
Which law are you referring to? This law contains, in plain language, assertions that laws enacted to encourage repair are considered "public good"? I'll believe it when you post a link.
What if there was a large company, RomeRepairCo, already operating in Sweden? Wouldn't they then have a claim to some form of protectionist angle to this law?
Do you see where I am going with this? You say "it is in the law", yet you are neglecting the fact that court cases hinge on the interpretation of law.
Why are laws designed to nationalize (ahem) national resources not qualifying as "for the public good"? When do governments enact any law that is not (ostensibly, at least) "for the public good"?
The history of ISDS law shows that the validity of "for the public good" is determined by these corporate courts^Wroom of corporate lawyers and according to their own corporate interpretation. This is why the outcomes they have so far produced run so contrary to any non-libertarian interpretation of a moral society.
Botox is very efficient and generally lasts about 3-6 months. In my experience there are no complications and it really does work.
I have not tried it on my hands but according to my sister it is quite uncomfortable, they give local anesthesia for the hands but not for say armpits. Lots of needle pricks is not that fun and I believe you can get some bruises that go away quickly.
The treatment is very quick, about 10-15 minutes. In Sweden it costs about €150 for the injections and €150 for the actual Botox (the Botox cost counts towards insurance scheme to cap medicine costs) if done privately.
I have a question regarding the 9-5 working day. Do Americans really work 9-5 and regard this as an 8 hour working day? Or is this a legacy of the old days with paid lunch or such?
I officially work 8.25 hours per day or 8-17 with 45 minutes of lunch, this is roughly the standard working day in Sweden.
9–5 is the standard British working day, which includes an hour for lunch.
As an example, my contract when I worked for the British government said, "You will normally be required to work a five-day week of 41 hours gross, Monday to Friday, including meal breaks".
The time allowed for lunch breaks was one hour per day, which led to a working time of 7h12m, and a total weekly working time of 36 hours.
I only notice now that this doesn't quite add up to 9–17h. That's probably because most people took about ¾ hour for lunch rather than the full hour, and left at 17:00 rather than 17:12.
....although I must admit this is rare. The last place was 9-5 with half an hour for lunch, which was widely abused by others (eg. 2 hour pub lunch every Friday, clear off early, roll in late).
A previous place wanted 40 hours a week when I inquired about returning. A reevaluation of priorities led me to turn that offer down.
In the UK the standard was once 9-5 with an hour's lunch. It's slowly crept from that to "9-5 with a short lunch if you're not busy" and then "8 paid hours plus unpaid lunch".
Not sure about the US, but in the UK which seems to be fairly culturally aligned, we're expected to put in an average of 7.5h of "logged in" work, with core hours being 09:30-16:30, and a mandatory 30m unpaid lunchbreak.
(I say average because you're expected to put in ~37.5h of work a week, and have the deficit/surplus at month end of +-5h)
Having worked 20 or 30 temp jobs in my time as well as perms, in the UK in the 2000s it used to be 37.5/37/35 hours per week for office and 40 for industrial or warehouse work, but it's increasingly common to see 40 for office.
I work for a well known software company in the US. I get in by 9 and leave by 5. I take a 30-60 minute lunch break.
I'm not a young go getter. Many of my colleagues get in earlier and stay way later. I'm not sure about them but I continue to get raises and glowing performance reviews.
You are entitled to 5 minutes per hours for toilette breaks et.c. Most white collar jobs you just take your breaks whenever you feel you need them, and the fika is very important and in most places longer than the 20 minutes you accumulate in the morning or afternoon. In blue collar it is sometimes very different with a signal at 55 minutes every hour and then a signal 3 minutes later to signal that it is time to start moving back to your station and be ready for the signal at the hour. But I have worked as a construction worker where there was fika at least once every morning and afternoon.
When I worked in manual labour (warehouses etc) that was certainly the case but in a white-collar job it is much less structured in my experience, we may have a formal fika once a week or just informal coffee breaks every now and then.
Fika IS important to productivity though! Morale boosting if nothing else.
most people work 09:00 - 18:00 and take 45-60 minutes for lunch around noon or 13:00. however many people start or end earlier or later to avoid bad traffic.
As someone who makes a living off Windows software, surely you have paid for your license? Else you got absolutely no right to complain about anything breaking.
Actually, when you claim that it is not a free upgrade because you need to have paid for a valid license for the software you claim to be using, you are implying that you stole Windows.
The other poster appeared to be presuming that that implication was unintentional and inaccurate, and that the upgrade was indeed free for you.
No, xe was merely pointing out a cost that isn't factored into "free upgrade". You're probably not realizing that to people with long experience of Microsoft marketing, upgrading to Windows hasn't necessarily meant from Windows.
I think it's more that the situation where a person could have a license compliant installation of Windows without having purchased [for some definition of "purchase"] a copy of Windows is non-obvious.
>Why not be friendly with Russia, show them the benefits of our society without enforcing our ethics? Why the war mongering? The EU also sneakily, under suspect circumstances put a pro EU person in Power in the Ukraine
Wait now... You are calling EU war mongering? Remind me again who invaded Ukraine when the Ukrainian people wanted to turn towards the west. In direct violation of the Budapest Memorandum.
Putin is no weakling being manipulated by the oligarchs. He may not show off his wealth but make no mistake, he tightly controls the Russian state and oligarchs - not the other way around.
The pro EU leadership was put in place under very suspect circumstances [0] and can very well be seen as a big FU to Russia. It's all a power game, Russian economy suffers, EU economy suffers, US military-industrial complex and oil industry benefits.
I thought they just asked the people there whether they preferred to be part of Russia or part of a more EU focused new Ukraine. Then the People voted.
And did they shoot down that jet? There really does not seems to be any motive for them (the Russians) to do that. Maybe they fired on a fighter flying in the radar shadow of the commercial jet? How ethical is that? There is still a lot of vagueness around that incident and it not just from the Russians.
But ok, Putin may not be a nice man, I don't really know, somehow he is never ever in the news here. Whenever I look up stuff on the internet he comes across as quite intelligent, not like a tyrant. My point is, should we make the EU's and Russia's economy suffer? I'm betting you don't know any people in agriculture, the flower or the fruit business that lost their jobs because of this stupid boycott. I'm betting it's much worse in Russia. And who are we punishing? Putin? No, those nice people that live in Russia and work hard to make a living.
How would you feel if you lost your job because suddenly the EU would stop trade with the US because your president build a wall on the Mexican border and kicked out friendly Muslim Families? It's all a game to these people. Let's not humiliate ourselves by screaming in forums what they feed us in the media.
When goods don't cross borders, armies will. Were just getting ready for another senseless war because our leaders are dicks.
My Girlfriend is an IT Recruiter in Stockholm, Sweden and Linkedin is by far the most common way for her and her recruiter colleagues to find candidates. Linkedin's search feature is one of their strong selling points.
Github + Linkedin and a visible email adress goes a long way to finding a job if you got a desirable skill set. List skills, list jobs and, if allowed, projects on Linkedin. Treat it as an SEO'ing your own personal brand.
Salaries listed per Quartile, in SEK. The categories are quite broad. There is a listing per decile but I could not find it right now.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yPjcXoKuwq8SBngQ2-G9...
http://SCB.se is the source.