What an electrician is paid on a Finnish site
Group rates from 1 August 2026, the shift supplements, and the deductions that turn gross into take-home.
Short, checkable answers to what people actually ask us before they come to work in Finland. Every figure here comes from the collective agreement or from the Tax Administration, with the page and the date we checked it. Nothing is a promise about your own pay: the calculator on each trade page builds your own scenario instead.
Group rates from 1 August 2026, the shift supplements, and the deductions that turn gross into take-home.
Why the group comes from the work you do and not from years served — and what can move it up or down.
Tax number, Valtti card, safety card — what is required by law, what by the site, what each costs.
Which agreement applies, what section 11.8 means for a temporary stay, and why welding qualification is not a pay group.
When an allowance is payable, the 2026 tax-free maximums, and what the three-year rule on one site means.