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Salaries

Every year a salary review is done at KTH. The salary review process is regulated through central agreements with Saco-S, OFR/S and Seko. As an employee at KTH you are entitled to a salary dialogue with your closest manager. Information about the salary review is available on the KTH intranet. There you can also find salary statistics, guidelines, and information about the salary review. Saco-S members also have a salary-setting dialogue, where their new salary is communicated.

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The Saco-S association at KTH 

The local Saco-S association is involved in the salary review process and strives to safeguard its quality. Members are welcome to contact the board with questions about the salary review process via e-mail (saco-loner@kth.se). Before the start of the annual salary review, the board also offers drop-in times via zoom. All members included in the review receive an invitation via e-mail.  

In case of formal disagreement with the proposed salary during the salary-setting dialogue, the board follows up on individual cases. 

Saco-S salary policy 

Saco-S has a useful search engine for salary statistics, but it is possible your own union also has salary statistics for your specific profession or offers advice on how to have a successful salary dialogue and salary negotiation.  

Saco-S’s salary policy focuses on  

  • Individual and differentiated salaries
  • Salary should be based on education, results, responsibility, competence, and experience, and set on objective grounds 
  • Salary should not be influenced by factors that are not objective, such as gender, ethnicity or disability 
  • Salary should mirror the contribution made to the organization 
  • Every employee should be able to influence his/her salary and employment conditions 

RALS-T in short 

Saco-S and the Swedish Agency for Government Employers have signed a central salary agreement, called RALS-T. The agreement contains the purpose and conditions for the local salary structure. The responsibility for helping to develop the local salary structure lies with the local Saco-S association. 

  • The agreement does not include numbers or a percentage but is anchored in the local salary structure and based on the financial conditions of the organization. 
  • The agreement is focused on dialogue between the employer and the local Saco-S association, sometimes it is called a “process agreement”. The employer and the local Saco-S association are responsible for the process together, for its functioning and further development. 
  • In general, salaries are established through a salary-setting dialogue. The local association works to ensure the quality of the preparations and follow-up of the salary review process. During the process, members can ask their union representatives for information and advice.  
  • RALS-T is an agreement without an end date. Our salary process continues regardless of the agreement structures of the other trade unions.