Ooh Margaret…

Do we pretend anything? What you write is actually only half right.

1. You have a finite number of sick days where you can call in sick. Would you want a sick person at work, doing a bad job making other people sick as well, including your customers. Or perhaps doing mistakes, worst case lethal ones, because they are not fully focused?
2. If you’re so sick you can’t work for a longer time you need to go to the doctors, and you’ll get a long term leave due to sickness. By long term I mean anything from days to a year. The employer has to pay your salaries for the first 14 days, after that the government takes over. There are saveral conditions here, and the focus is to have the employee work as soon as possible, either full or part time.
3. If the employee is limited by sickness or injures in such a way they cannot work within their field of education, they can apply for a government sponsored re-education program while getting payed a monthly salary.
4. We don’t spend the money from the oil, we invest it and spend a percentage of the surplus.

$117000 and up, depending of the type of doctor. Lawyers can earn more or a little less, depending.

Don’t forget, you don’t have to be rich to get an education and become a doctor in Norway, just smart and dedicated. Everyone has the exact same opportunities.

Thus the differences between higher and lower wages are less extreme,yet you write like that is a bad thing. It’s still enough for ppl to want to get out on top. We just don’t punish those who don’t.

It’s security. As a parent, you can rest assured your offspring will manage a decent life even if they don’t succeed in every way.

True, but if you’re sick you get help. If you have a baby you get one year leave and monthly payments until the kid is 18. If you loose your work, you get a good percentage of your salary and help getting a new job. If an injury prevents you from doing what you’re educated as, you’ll get free re-education, everyone can afford education and can take higher degrees, and so on.

BTW, 60% of cars bought in Norway is electric. I’ve driven electric for 8 years now.

Norway is far from perfect, but the things you point out really is not a problem.

$117000 and up

I hope all of you are keeping well.

I would like to know the job scopes with regards to the healthcare sector in Norway. I currently posses a Bsc in Biomedical science and I am planning to do my Msc in Bioscience at the University of Oslo or Biomedical science at University of Bergen. After my post graduate studies, I would like to focus on my ambition, which is to be either a molecular pathologist, research assistant or to work in a lab of a hospital.

I would like someone to guide me on what I should know. Of course, I am learning the language. Anything else, any heads up ?

I would really appreciate if someobe could guide me. Thank you in advance !

Why don’t you tell us what doctors and lawyers an educated people may because it’s too close to what the labors make?

They are gross, of course. Tax is impacted by personal circumstances so it’s impossible to quote net salaries. That being said, tax is nothing like 50%, did you read that on Fox News? Most people pay something like 30-35%.

Yes