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Journalist

Industry
Kultur, medier og idrett
Education
Trade certificate
Salary per year
approx. NOK 810,000
Where
Indoors and outdoors
Working hours
Daytime

Journalist (Norwegian name) is an occupation in Kultur, medier og idrett, in the group Kultur og opplevelser.

The usual way in is a trade certificate from upper secondary school or a vocational college.

The average salary for the occupational group was about NOK 810,000 a year in 2025, according to Statistics Norway. The figure covers the whole occupational group (2642 in STYRK-08), not only journalist, so pay can be both higher and lower.

The work usually takes place both indoors and outdoors, and the working hours are in the daytime.Where and when the work takes place has been assessed by Søknadsbasen with the help of AI and may be imprecise.

The occupation is also called avisjournalist, kritiker, radiojournalist, sportsjournalist or tvjournalist.

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Source: utdanning.no (NLOD 2.0) and Statistics Norway table 11418 (CC BY 4.0), 2025.

The occupational information is based on open data from utdanning.no, licensed under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD). We have adapted it.