(edit title) Can anyone help please Wages in Stockholm! Options

[scottscott]

Hi. I lived in stockholm 12 years ago and Iv'e just been offered a job to return to stockholm full time. for a full time job on average 44 hours per week iv@e been offered 23000 krona which I think works out to around 16000 krona after tax etc. what I need to know isthis a wage that someone can live on in stockholm with day to day living including renting a appartment (single guy so one bedroom any idea of the going rate )? the job is on Ekero so I would be looking at living that side of town. I need to make a desisssion in the next couple of days so any advice would be great, thanks for taking a look. Scott in the UK

[byke]

Just about

[Puffin]

You will get around 18,000kr after tax

This is enough to live on - many live on less - but obviously not a luxury lifestyle

Accomodation will be the biggest headache owing to the housing shortage in Stockholm

[scottscott]

thanks I thought it was possible and know it will be a headache with finding some where to live west side of the city heading towards ekero any ideas on price for a one bedroom flat and when a place is advertised is there any supprises like council taxes etc ??

[carterhayes]

Hi Scott!

Depending on where on Ekerö you are going to work, you dont _have_ to live on that side of town. You should check out the ferry between Slagsta and Jungfrusund.

I am rather sure that it would be way easier to get some place to stay in Flemmingsberg / Skärholmen / Bredäng and take the ferry every day to work, than get accomodation in Bromma or on Ekerö. Perhaps its a start to establish yourself without losing it all on the cost of living?

Get a good bicycle and bike to work perhaps?

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[carterhayes]

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[PDX]

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That tunnel there between Ekerö and Vårby, is it open to and safe for cyclists? I did almost exactly half this route to Ekerö last week but then turned back since I was not sure if I can continue..

~~~PDX~~~

[scottscott]

thanks all for your help from your replies and my memories of stockholm and 99 % of people that live there...it's definatly the right move to make and at 42 it's kind of a last chance do it or regret it thing ha ha. so all in all it sounds fesable the wage iv'e been offered to live !

[Localer]

23k salary sounds very low don't you think for a full time job ?

[Mo]

depends entirely on what the job is, lots and lots of people (nurses, teachers) make around this amount

[scottscott]

thanks and well said mo . not everyones lucky to be on a high wage in todays world...

[scottscott]

Oh and just to add to that. Sometimes in life it's really not the amount your earning or what type of car mummy &daddy bought you when they finished paying for you to go to uni. Or if you wear a suit from harvey nicholls or T K Maxx it's more waking up in the morning with a smile of contentment on your face that's important !!

[carterhayes]

it's more waking up in the morning with a smile of contentment on your face that's important !!

Never read anything more true than that.

[Darwinder]

Oh and just to add to that. Sometimes in life it's really not the amount your earning or what type of car mummy &daddy bought you when they finished paying for you to ... (show full quote)

Oh and just to add to that. Sometimes in life it's really not the amount your earning or what type of car mummy &daddy bought you when they finished paying for you to go to uni. Or if you wear a suit from harvey nicholls or T K Maxx it's more waking up in the morning with a smile of contentment on your face that's important !! ... (hide full quote)

Who says mommy and daddy bought you a nice car or payed for uni, why couldnt you be a kid that worked a full time job through high school in construction to earn enough to buy an old beater mustang and put enough money away to get your way through a top university with your own savings plus a scholorship. Doing all that, why couldnt said person have started a nightclub at 24 with money he managed to put away through university working summers running a house painting business making good money. At 27 why couldnt that guy have become a millionare, having done it all himself, bet he wakes up with a smile on his face to.

[scottscott]

Because people that work there way up from the bottom without the help of others wouldn't come out with a comment like " x ammount isn't alot for a full time job " would you say it ? I don't think you would if you have had the hard earned sucsess that you mention. well done you deserve it by the sounds of it !