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Posted by: 2Sweden 16.Apr.2019, 07:52 AM

Hi people,

After working as a consultant in the last couple of months in Gothenburg I have the opportunity to go become permanent.
I was in a what a think a not bad rate of 690SEK per hour. Unfortunately I don't know what to expect as a permanent salary.
The position would be for a technical manager position typically could be said as niche...
Could someone one shine a light what sort of salary should be expected?

Posted by: skogsbo 16.Apr.2019, 08:37 AM

I'd knock 25% off what it would be in the UK.

But you might be able to negotiate the difference as pension contributions as it is tax beneficial to them.

Posted by: Uncle Fred 16.Apr.2019, 08:58 AM

I have a friend at that company who is in a similar position and earns around 60,000 p/m.

Posted by: 2Sweden 16.Apr.2019, 10:14 AM

Hi

A Salary of 60000/month (assuming before taxes) appears to be low when compared to UK! Plus Gothenburg its significantly more expensive than mostly of the UK.
Is this true???

Posted by: Uncle Fred 16.Apr.2019, 10:32 AM

Don't expect what you are getting now, contract rates are much higher than employed rates.

Posted by: DuneSunny 16.Apr.2019, 10:33 AM

Posted by: Uncle Fred 16.Apr.2019, 10:35 AM

A normal engineer can expect that amount.

Posted by: 2Sweden 16.Apr.2019, 11:00 AM

Is 60K/month before tax a salary of a Manager?

Posted by: Uncle Fred 16.Apr.2019, 11:05 AM

There are managers and managers from project managers to managing directors, where do you fit in.

Posted by: 2Sweden 16.Apr.2019, 11:21 AM

I fit into the Technical Specialist Role kind of manager.

Posted by: Uncle Fred 16.Apr.2019, 11:40 AM

So you are not a real manager. I am not sure what you are saying by technical specialist. Is it powertrain, body in white, interior or paint. Is it product development, CAD or process etc.

Posted by: 2Sweden 16.Apr.2019, 12:32 PM

Technical Specialist of an exterior feature - responsible for managing all the technical aspects of that feature (not a typical people manager).

Posted by: Uncle Fred 16.Apr.2019, 12:40 PM

This gets odder and odder, an exterior feature. Is that one part or paint, I am confused. To manage an exterior feature is strange or is it something new and top secret.

Posted by: DuneSunny 16.Apr.2019, 03:01 PM

If it is a international company then their HR department will most likely have a salary matrix so that they cannot be accused of discrimination and you will get the salary that has been allocated to your job role. You can always check with Union - but they can only give you average figures.

Posted by: 2Sweden 17.Apr.2019, 12:38 PM

QUOTE (DuneSunny @ 16.Apr.2019, 03:01 PM)

Posted by: DuneSunny 17.Apr.2019, 07:15 PM

I do not have the salary matrices and union contracts for large international car manufacturers.

Your question indicates that either:
1) You are a troll
2) You do not have the level of intelligence to take up a "Technical Specialist Role kind of manager"
3) Just plain incompetent
4) Only worth the average Gothenburg salary, which is SEK 23,657/month.

And if you do not know how to find out 4) in less than 60 seconds, then you are not a manager and worth less than SEK 23,657/month.

Do your homework!

Posted by: yet another brit 18.Apr.2019, 08:12 AM

OP, you seem a bit underprepared...


690 x 168 (standard #hours / month) = 115k, so I suspect that was a loaded rate already, ie, from which employers tax, vacation, company pension, insurances, other benefits etc would be taken before you can see the equivalent of a gross "normal" salary? If so, then roughly halve that to get an "normal" salary, and that would be about right, say 60k. [multipliers for contractors vary from about 1.8-2.3 depending on which business, level, agency, etc].

But if that was the salary you were getting from an agency *after* employers tax etc, then they must love you.