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Prest

Industry
Sosialt arbeid
Education
Master
Salary per year
approx. NOK 780,000
Where
Indoors
Working hours
Daytime

Prest (Norwegian name) is an occupation in Sosialt arbeid, in the group Helse og omsorg.

The usual way in is a master's degree.

The average salary for the occupational group was about NOK 780,000 a year in 2025, according to Statistics Norway. The figure covers the whole occupational group (2636 in STYRK-08), not only prest, so pay can be both higher and lower.

The work usually takes place indoors, and the working hours are in the daytime.

The occupation is also called fengselsprest, institusjonsprest, prostiprest, seniorprest, sogneprest or spesialprest.

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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.