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Sjåfør

Industry
Transport
Education
Trade certificate
Salary per year
approx. NOK 510,000
Where
Indoors and outdoors
Working hours
Shifts

Sjåfør (Norwegian name) is an occupation in Transport, in the group Teknikk og natur.

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 510,000 a year in 2025, according to Statistics Norway. The figure covers the whole occupational group (8322 in STYRK-08), not only sjåfør, so pay can be both higher and lower.

The work usually takes place both indoors and outdoors, and the working hours are in shifts.

The occupation is also called yrkessjåfør.

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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.