No statutory minimum wage – pay is set in collective agreements or negotiated with your employer – and at least 25 days of paid holiday a year. Employers are short of staff in health care, IT, education and installation and maintenance jobs, more often in northern Sweden. Find out where to look, how to apply and how to get your personal identity number (personnummer).
Arbetsförmedlingen, the Swedish Public Employment Service, regularly assesses where employers struggle to recruit. In its report “Var finns jobben?” (June 2025) the clearest shortages are in:
Shortages are more concentrated in the counties of northern Sweden. EURES also lists health professionals, health associate professionals and building trades workers (except electricians) as the groups with the most frequent shortages.
Competition for jobs is tougher in sales, purchasing and marketing, transport, social work, and culture, media and design. Looking further ahead, Arbetsförmedlingen estimates that Sweden will need 200,000–300,000 more workers by 2035, depending on its assumptions.
For graduates, the best chances are in health care, IT and technical jobs. In IT and engineering English is sometimes enough – elsewhere, Swedish makes a big difference.
Key figures: Eurostat (population on 1 January 2026; unemployment and employment rates 2025; minimum wages July 2026); for the United Kingdom – Office for National Statistics; for Liechtenstein – national statistics. Country information: EURES – Living and working conditions, public employment services and the official government websites listed under each country. Rules, thresholds and amounts can change – check the official sources before you move. Updated: October 2026.
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