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Vernepleier

Industry
Helse
Education
Bachelor
Salary per year
approx. NOK 690,000
Where
Indoors
Working hours
Rota

Vernepleier (Norwegian name) is an occupation in Helse, in the group Helse og omsorg.

The usual way in is a bachelor's degree.

The average salary for the occupational group was about NOK 690,000 a year in 2025, according to Statistics Norway. The figure covers the whole occupational group (2224 in STYRK-08), not only vernepleier, so pay can be both higher and lower.

The work usually takes place indoors, and the working hours are on a rota.

The occupation is also called vernepleierutdannelse.

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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.