APPRENTICE PAY · 2026

See your pay through the apprenticeship.

Choose a trade. Follow your pay from the first half-year to the trade certificate.

Do your own sums

What is your apprenticeship in?

Skilled worker pay50 230 kr

SSB (Statistics Norway) occupation median. Use your agreed rate if you know it.

Hours per week37,5 hours

Extra pay each month0 kr

Tax zone

Rest of NorwayFinnmark (northern Norway) / North Troms

Change the percentages 30 · 40 · 50 · 80 %

Half-year 130 %

Half-year 240 %

Half-year 350 %

Half-year 480 %

Where the numbers come from

Locksmith: SSB, table 11418: 7222 Locksmith, median agreed monthly pay for full-time workers in 2025, fetched 26 Sept 2026. The median includes workers without a trade certificate.

Example 30/40/50/80 %, check your collective agreement. Check your apprenticeship contract, your collective agreement and your real skilled worker pay.

Skattesatser 2026, Finansdepartementet, fetched 26 Sept 2026.Tax rates 2026, Ministry of Finance
Forskuddsutskrivingen 2026, Skatteetaten, fetched 26 Sept 2026.Advance tax rules 2026, Norwegian Tax Administration

The 2026 estimate uses bracket tax, national insurance, the minimum deduction, the personal allowance and tax on ordinary income. Other deductions, wealth, interest and age are not included.