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Samfunnsøkonom

Industry
Økonomi og ledelse
Education
Master
Salary per year
approx. NOK 980,000
Where
Indoors
Working hours
Daytime

Samfunnsøkonom (Norwegian name) is an occupation in Økonomi og ledelse, in the group Næringsliv og service.

The usual way in is a master's degree.

The average salary for the occupational group was about NOK 980,000 a year in 2025, according to Statistics Norway. The figure covers the whole occupational group (2631 in STYRK-08), not only samfunnsøkonom, 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 samfunnsøkonomi or sosialøkonom.

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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.