Is this accurate ? Nurse could earn 4460e/KK average in Finland ?
Source : Economic Research Institue
by No-Concept6168
Is this accurate ? Nurse could earn 4460e/KK average in Finland ?
Source : Economic Research Institue
by No-Concept6168
24 comments
>Nurse could earn 4460e/KK average in Finland
Not average no. Average is well below 4 000, not sure how much. Google says average is 3 272€ on public and 3 129€ on private. And that sounds more real.
And yes salary for nurses on private sector is smaller than on public. Not necessarily for everything, but on average.
No. Make it half for everyone and you are somewhere in reality.
Unaccurate in many ways.
No. Some pseudo-stats taken from some irrational article.
Average is under 3k.
Doctors can make 10k if they practise privately and/or work as freelancers for public, charging obscenely.
Nurses make under 3k. Nurse specialists might make 3k.
Skilled doctors might be able to do this by running a private business.
Nurses do under 3k, if doing night shifts. Normal shifts get about 2k. Not nearly enough compared to the amount of resposibility and work they do.
…and even if you made this much, I believe tax percentage is then around 40%-50%, so definitely not a lot in hand.
“Universality, high quality, and affordability” might be true as long as it’s not about mental healthcare – like diagnosing and treating ADHD or neurodiverse traits – because in those cases we’re still using models conceived in the late 1970s.
Maybe if they work a lot of overtime. A lot of.
Having worked as an x-ray tech in a university hospital I can confirm this is absolute BS. After 10+ years in service and even with peronal bonuses and heavy rota of night shifts, weekend shifts and late shifts gross pay was under 4000€ / month. On average gross pay in a large university hospital in capital area was somewhere between 3200 – 3800€ / month depending on areas of responsibiliy and years of experience.
The description about elderly population and lack of skilled staff is spot on. However I’d add that skilled staff are leaving en massé because of unsatisfactory working conditions, poor leadership, heavy workload & high stress and relatively bad pay.
I see this is from a job search portal. If they try to imply moving to Finland is a good idea for foreign healthcare professionals, it is not that easy. They need to be qualified by the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health, get some supervision when starting to work, learn the language etc. There is a huge need for nurses and doctors, but due to strict qualifications, Finland can’t just take them from abroad to work in Finnish hospitals.
What a joke.
There would be no nurse shortage if it was the correct number.
Wildly inaccurate. Nurse make 3.100. in Helsinki it’s more but you pay muuuch more to live in Helsinki.
I’m a nurse working in Finland and can confirm it is usually around 3000-4000 including night, weekend and afternoon shifts. I work with elderly care.
HAHAHAHAHA just got turned down from hospital 10 Times because i was suicidal. Then I decided to cut my throat open on front of the doctor so he’s fancy, expensive shoes would get ruined. Then finally get administered to a psychward (not by this doctor, who migh I say was a psychiatrist, but
rather from a general doctor)
Also I’ve been called “stupid” and “a fucking idiot” by nurses, but last straw was when I Said to a nurse, crying “do you think i wanna Be like this? I’ve already tried to kill myself”, to which the nurse snswered with cold eyes “try harder next time’
5/5 absolutely the best healthcare in the world
Nurse could earn 4460e/KK average in Finland ? I can’t even imagine this. I would really go for what is stated in some comments, that the salary is in fact brut of 3200-3800 Euro/kk given that a considerable amount of overtime is done. I do believe that it might bypass 4K from time to time.
Keep in mind though, that your salary will never increase considerably after some specific thresholds . Even though this is true, the salary goes up very slowly (the tax deduction part increases in percentage, and doing overtime will hit a limit). You can make only a limited amount of overtime. The limiting factor of overtime is legally binding for the employer, so no matter how much little employer they have, no one is going to risk jail or a fine for you by giving you more overtime than allowed (I am not aware of exceptions, even there might be some in very limiting circumstances). Also don’t forget that the moment your gross salary hits 30K per year, taxing becomes aggressively progressive. Given your figures, and assuming that you will be making 60K /kk you might find yourself touching only two thirds of that, around 40K which looks better than over 5 years ago. You can make a very good approximation of how mouch you will make for the current year using the public tax calculator.
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No, those numbers include overtime and benefits, nurses hardly make over 2700€/kk.
I’d say wrong. Most don’t even get 3k. Only specialized nurses and shift work might get over.
No it is not.
I’m a registered nurse working full-time in Southern Finland, in the public sector, in a university hospital.
My basic salary is 2700€, though with overtime I may be able to pump it up to 3500€ on a good month. That’s gross salary by the way.
My net income fluctuates between 2000€ and 2800€ a month. Practically 100% of the overtime bonuses go straight into taxes though so you’re never going to see a 3000€ net pay as a nurse in this country.
Full-time doctors gross about 4000-6000€ a month in the public sector, depending on where they work and how senior of a rank they possess. A third of that is taxed into oblivion, naturally.
I know a nurse she makes 2200 before tax. Around 16-1700 after tax, full time work no evening, extra work or weekends. Its super low salary considering the work is super hard, requires years of studies and practice.
She has over 1 year of work experience.