Public employee

If you are a public employee, your salary is composed of fixed contractual salary components: Salary levels and centrally determined supplements. 

In addition to this it is possible to negotiate qualifying supplement, function supplement and one-time negotiable supplement.

As a recent graduate, you will be placed on salary level 4, which is of 2 years duration. 

This is followed by salary levels 5, 6 and 8, all of which are all of 1 year duration. 

Part of your salary is thus determined by your seniority. When you need to find out how much seniority you have, you add together how many years and months you have had a job after you became a graduate. The part of your PhD education that has been approved also counts when you calculate your seniority. 

Work done during your bachelor's and master's period does not count.

In addition, the collective agreements for the state and the regions include a number of centrally stipulated supplements, which you are entitled to if you are employed as cand. pharm. or employed by the state as a scientific assistant and other titles.

Although the general system is the same both in the state and the region, there are different economic levels for both pay levels and supplements.

As a public employee, you are entitled to a salary negotiation upon employment and once a year thereafter.

Your salary is negotiated through your union representative or Pharmadanmark according to the agreements. In the public sector, it varies greatly when the annual wage negotiations take place.
If you are in doubt about when the negotiation takes place, we recommend that you ask your colleagues, your immediate manager or HR.

Read more about your terms as a public employee