In an [article on DR](https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/beregning-en-hoejtloennet-faar-over-seks-gange-saa-mange-penge-i-skattelettelser-som) about the new tax reliefs they made this example:

> Tjener man mellem 750.000 kroner og 2,5 millioner kroner om året, kan man se frem til en skattelettelse på 11.900 kroner årligt. Omvendt står en buschauffør med en årlig indkomst på 447.000 kroner til en årlig skattelettelse på cirka 2.900 kroner

Is it really true that bus drivers in Denmark earn that much?

by failian

9 comments

  2. If I look up bus driver salaries in the Statistics Denmark database, I get a figure of 36k per month including pensions (as of 2021): [https://i.imgur.com/Q7Cg4RE.png](https://i.imgur.com/Q7Cg4RE.png)

    That’s close to the figure cited by DR (447k/year is 37k/month). Of course pensions shouldn’t be included when discussing income taxes, but that’s the kind of omission you might expect from a journalist.

    Note that this includes drivers of long-distance and tourist busses, not only public transit busses.

  3. My dad in law, a bus driver, did not earn 40.000kr
    Think he was sitting at around 31k+pension after some 10 years or so.

  4. *Danske lønninger i medierne* skal tages med nogle **meget grove korn salt,** for som udgangspunkt *rapporteres de i ideologiens navn alt for højt*.

    ……………

    Alle disse absurde inflationære løntal er jo udelukkende en del af propagandaen om at overbevise danskerne om at de(eller i hvert fald alle de andre) er rige – selv om de rent faktisk slet ikke er det 😀

    Også **selvbedrag** kan jo gøre meget – og når der så er en konstant strøm af “information” fra medierne der fuldstændigt uanfægtet pumper størrelsen af lønningerne op til groteske højder, er det jo med til at forstærke selvbedraget om voldsom rigdom.

    Det er det berømte *midlertidigt insolvent millionær syndrom* ™, der for selvbedragerne bortforklarer deres egen fattigdom eller ligefrem arbejdsløshed med, at “de kunne jo være millionærer, hvis bare de ville”…

  6. You have to remember that the government will always take the highest possible salary they can think up to inflated their numbers, this is probably including pension, insurance, overtime, evening, weekend and so on and not at all a representative number

  7. It’s not *not* true.

    You have to consider that articles like these will *always* make an example from top cases to exaggerate and make it look like it’s the norm. You see it on articles about nurses salaries too.

    Yes, you can likely earn that much money as a bus driver — if you are willing to work 200+ hours a month, 7 days a week. These numbers are likely for something like the top 5% of bus drivers in Denmark.

  8. I did not earn nearly that much money when I was working as a busdriver. My pay was arround 24.000 – 26.000 but I was working around 28 hours a week.

  9. Dekra som uddaner buschauffør skriver på deres side at gennemsnittet ligger omkring 27.000 kr om måneden.

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