Earnings in central government, 1 October 2010

Central government includes, among other things, employees in the central administration, state-owned public sector schools, health and social services, professional, scientific and technical activities, and construction work. Full-time employees in the public sector schools had a growth in average monthly earnings of 3.9 per cent, in construction of 3.3 per cent, in professional, scientific and technical activities of 3.8 per cent, and in contrast, health and social services of 0.6 per cent.

The central administration

The central administration consists of public administration, the foreign service, and the National Insurance Office. Average earnings for employees in the central administration as a whole were NOK 38 600, up 6.0 per cent¹. Average earnings in the foreign service, which is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, and the Norwegian Peace Corps, were higher, at NOK 46 100; a rise of 6.7 per cent. For employees in the police and the prosecuting authority, earnings were NOK 39 600, and for the judicial system and the prison service earnings were NOK 39 000; an escalation of 8.5¹ and 5.7 per cent respectively.

Part-time employees

In order to make comparisons between full-time and part-time employees, the wages of the part-time employees are converted to full-time equivalents. Average monthly earnings of all part-time employees in the central government, in the form of full-time equivalents, were NOK 35 100; an upturn of 5.1 per cent. Part-time employed men had wages of NOK 37 600 and part-time employed women had wages of NOK 34 000 respectively, up 3.6 and 5.6 per cent.

¹ The figure was corrected 25 January 2012.

Tables:

• Table 1 Employees in central government. Average monthly earnings per full-time eqvivalent per 1 October 2009 and 2010. NOK and percentage change [Corrected 25 January 2012]
• Table 2 Full-time employees in central government. Average monthly earnings per 1 October 2009 and 2010, by subsection. NOK  [Corrected 25 January 2012]
• Table 3 Full-time employees in public administrationt. Average monthly earnings per 1 October 2009 and 2010, by subsection. NOK  [Corrected 25 January 2012]