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Swedish salary explained: What to expect, how tax works, and what you actually take home – LikeSweden

Swedish salary explained: What to expect, how tax works, and what you actually take home

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Glad Midsommar 🌿
*self-promo

Yesterday was my birthday, and this year it actually became my main celebration. Today we’re heading to Slottsskogen in Göteborg for the official Midsommar festivities: maypole, flower crowns, dancing, all of it.

But before we go, this is Midsommar – The Swedish Way. My ebook. 147 pages, 31 recipes, and basically everything I know about this celebration 💚

I just lowered the price to 99 kr. I want more people to actually have this in their kitchen, not just think about getting it.

And it’s not only for today. Gravad lax for Christmas Eve. Smörgåstårta for a birthday. Köttbullar for any random Sunday. This is a book you open all year, not just once.

Comment EBOOK and I’ll send you 3 free recipes to try first.

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Glad Midsommar 🌿
*self-promo

Yesterday was my birthday, and this year it actually became my main celebration. Today we’re heading to Slottsskogen in Göteborg for the official Midsommar festivities: maypole, flower crowns, dancing, all of it.

But before we go, this is Midsommar – The Swedish Way. My ebook. 147 pages, 31 recipes, and basically everything I know about this celebration 💚

I just lowered the price to 99 kr. I want more people to actually have this in their kitchen, not just think about getting it.

And it’s not only for today. Gravad lax for Christmas Eve. Smörgåstårta for a birthday. Köttbullar for any random Sunday. This is a book you open all year, not just once.

Comment EBOOK and I’ll send you 3 free recipes to try first.

1️⃣ Save this for your next Swedish dinner
2️⃣ Share with someone hosting this summer
3️⃣ Follow LikeSweden for more Swedish food and culture
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Midsommar · Swedish food · Sweden · Swedish recipes · ebook · Swedish culture · life in Sweden · Scandinavian food · likesweden · Midsommar 2026

🎂 31 today 🥳

To celebrate, we recreated a photo we took two years ago.

Two years later, we all somehow seem happier, more fulfilled, and a lot more ourselves.

Which feels like a pretty wonderful thing to be able to say.

So that’s my birthday wish this year 🤍

Nothing fancy.
Just for things to stay this way.

Thank you for being here and for making this little corner of the internet such a lovely place 🥹🇸🇪

1️⃣ Tell me one thing your past self would be proud of
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🎂 31 today 🥳

To celebrate, we recreated a photo we took two years ago.

Two years later, we all somehow seem happier, more fulfilled, and a lot more ourselves.

Which feels like a pretty wonderful thing to be able to say.

So that’s my birthday wish this year 🤍

Nothing fancy.
Just for things to stay this way.

Thank you for being here and for making this little corner of the internet such a lovely place 🥹🇸🇪

1️⃣ Tell me one thing your past self would be proud of
2️⃣ Share this with someone you’re grateful for
3️⃣ Follow LikeSweden for more things Swedish
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🏥 Women wait longer in Swedish emergency rooms than men. At every age, in every region, and nobody is officially sure why.

That`s the takeaway from Socialstyrelsen`s latest report, Sweden`s National Board of Health and Welfare. Average ER stay in 2025: 4 hours and 16 minutes. Up from the year before.

The regional gap is wide. Region Skån: almost 5 hours. Region Jönköping: just over 3. Where you live really matters.

But the gender pattern is the part that won`t go away. It shows up year after year, and the agency`s own medical expert admits openly that they don`t know the cause and that it needs to be researched.

Sweden is great at measuring its problems. The harder part comes after 🇸🇪

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🏥 Women wait longer in Swedish emergency rooms than men. At every age, in every region, and nobody is officially sure why.

That's the takeaway from Socialstyrelsen's latest report, Sweden's National Board of Health and Welfare. Average ER stay in 2025: 4 hours and 16 minutes. Up from the year before.

The regional gap is wide. Region Skån: almost 5 hours. Region Jönköping: just over 3. Where you live really matters.

But the gender pattern is the part that won't go away. It shows up year after year, and the agency's own medical expert admits openly that they don't know the cause and that it needs to be researched.

Sweden is great at measuring its problems. The harder part comes after 🇸🇪

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🇸🇪 Posting in Swedish again... thank you for the amazing response to my first Swedish video ❤️

I was honestly a little nervous about posting it, but your comments were so kind and encouraging that I couldn’t wait to record another one.
So yes... there will definitely be more Swedish videos coming 😅

This time I made pressgurka - one of those simple Swedish side dishes that somehow ends up next to everything 🥒

The recipe comes from my Midsommar: The Swedish Way e-book, where I’ve collected some of my favourite Swedish recipes, traditions and Midsommar classics 🇸🇪🍓

If you’d like this recipe written out step by step (plus 2 more recipes from the book), just comment:
📖 EBOK
and I’ll send them straight to you in a DM ✨

Inside the full e-book you’ll find:
🍽️ 31 Swedish recipes
🎉 Midsommar traditions explained
🎶 snaps songs with English translations
📖 147 pages of Swedish summer inspiration
💡 ingredient swaps, serving tips and practical advice

And now I need to know...

👇 What’s your favourite thing to eat with pressgurka?

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🇸🇪 Posting in Swedish again... thank you for the amazing response to my first Swedish video ❤️

I was honestly a little nervous about posting it, but your comments were so kind and encouraging that I couldn’t wait to record another one.
So yes... there will definitely be more Swedish videos coming 😅

This time I made pressgurka - one of those simple Swedish side dishes that somehow ends up next to everything 🥒

The recipe comes from my Midsommar: The Swedish Way e-book, where I’ve collected some of my favourite Swedish recipes, traditions and Midsommar classics 🇸🇪🍓

If you’d like this recipe written out step by step (plus 2 more recipes from the book), just comment:
📖 EBOK
and I’ll send them straight to you in a DM ✨

Inside the full e-book you’ll find:
🍽️ 31 Swedish recipes
🎉 Midsommar traditions explained
🎶 snaps songs with English translations
📖 147 pages of Swedish summer inspiration
💡 ingredient swaps, serving tips and practical advice

And now I need to know...

👇 What’s your favourite thing to eat with pressgurka?

1️⃣ Save this recipe for later
2️⃣ Share with someone learning Swedish
3️⃣ Comment EBOK for 3 free recipes
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Sweden · svenska · learning Swedish · pressgurka · Swedish food · Midsommar · Swedish traditions · life in Sweden · Swedish culture · Swedish recipes · Scandinavian food · expat in Sweden · Swedish language

🎭 Sweden’s theatre world had a busy week

This week’s Nordic Curtain Call includes everything from royal celebrations and major leadership news to musical auditions and summer theatre adventures:

✅ The Royal Swedish Opera celebrated King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia’s 50th wedding anniversary with a gala concert featuring First Aid Kit, opera stars, ballet and a world-premiere love song

✅ Göteborgs Stadsteater announced that Artistic Director Linda Zachrison will step down in 2027 after overseeing a major artistic revival and a huge increase in young audiences

✅ Auditions for the upcoming Black Jack musical have officially taken place in Göteborg as work continues on one of Sweden’s most anticipated new musicals

✅ An interactive family theatre production inspired by the Battle of Lund is inviting audiences to become part of the story this summer

✅ Allsång på Skansen revealed its full 2026 lineup, with artists including Carola, Lena Philipsson, The Ark, Oskar Linnros, Medina, A-Teens and many more

From royal galas to new musicals, summer theatre and Sweden’s biggest singalong tradition, the Nordic stage scene isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

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🎭 Sweden’s theatre world had a busy week

This week’s Nordic Curtain Call includes everything from royal celebrations and major leadership news to musical auditions and summer theatre adventures:

✅ The Royal Swedish Opera celebrated King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia’s 50th wedding anniversary with a gala concert featuring First Aid Kit, opera stars, ballet and a world-premiere love song

✅ Göteborgs Stadsteater announced that Artistic Director Linda Zachrison will step down in 2027 after overseeing a major artistic revival and a huge increase in young audiences

✅ Auditions for the upcoming Black Jack musical have officially taken place in Göteborg as work continues on one of Sweden’s most anticipated new musicals

✅ An interactive family theatre production inspired by the Battle of Lund is inviting audiences to become part of the story this summer

✅ Allsång på Skansen revealed its full 2026 lineup, with artists including Carola, Lena Philipsson, The Ark, Oskar Linnros, Medina, A-Teens and many more

From royal galas to new musicals, summer theatre and Sweden’s biggest singalong tradition, the Nordic stage scene isn’t slowing down anytime soon.

1️⃣ Save this for later
2️⃣ Tag your theatre bestie
3️⃣ Follow LikeSweden for more Nordic Curtain Call
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Sweden · theatre news · musical theatre · opera · Göteborg · Stockholm · Allsång på Skansen · Black Jack · Nordic theatre

🏡 A town in Sweden is giving away apartments for FREE. Purchase price: 0 kronor.

Hällefors, a small town in the forests about an hour from Örebro, has a shrinking population, and a local housing cooperative can’t sell its empty apartments. So five of them are now being given away.

The logic is very Swedish: in a housing cooperative, empty apartments mean higher monthly fees for everyone else. A new neighbour who pays their share is worth more than an empty flat.

The catch? You still pay the monthly fee, plus a small transfer cost. But ownership itself is free.

A few years ago these apartments were in demand. Now they can’t be given away fast enough. That’s rural Sweden’s population shift in one story. 📉

Would you move? 👀

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🏡 A town in Sweden is giving away apartments for FREE. Purchase price: 0 kronor.

Hällefors, a small town in the forests about an hour from Örebro, has a shrinking population, and a local housing cooperative can’t sell its empty apartments. So five of them are now being given away.

The logic is very Swedish: in a housing cooperative, empty apartments mean higher monthly fees for everyone else. A new neighbour who pays their share is worth more than an empty flat.

The catch? You still pay the monthly fee, plus a small transfer cost. But ownership itself is free.

A few years ago these apartments were in demand. Now they can’t be given away fast enough. That’s rural Sweden’s population shift in one story. 📉

Would you move? 👀

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🇸🇪 Posting this before I change my mind 😅

This is only the second video I’ve ever recorded entirely in Swedish.

I’ve been learning Swedish for years, yet every time I speak it on camera, my brain somehow forgets that making mistakes is part of the process 😂

This video was a double challenge: not only was I speaking Swedish, but I was also filming in public, which still makes me surprisingly nervous.

While editing, I spotted several mistakes. One of them I fixed because... let’s be honest, I accidentally swallowed an entire syllable and changed the word completely 🤣
And at some point I had to stop rewatching the video because every time I did, I found something new to cringe at. So instead of overthinking it, I’m pressing publish.

The funny thing is that I use Swedish almost every day. But mostly for work, client meetings, branding projects, websites, marketing, emails, and everyday errands.

Conversations about everything and nothing? Those are much rarer (@dzhana__beauty made me realise that 😆)

And that’s exactly why I need more practice.

So if you spot mistakes, feel free to correct me 🇸🇪 For these Swedish videos, I’ll be replying to Swedish comments in Swedish too.

Let’s see how this goes 😅

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🇸🇪 Posting this before I change my mind 😅

This is only the second video I’ve ever recorded entirely in Swedish.

I’ve been learning Swedish for years, yet every time I speak it on camera, my brain somehow forgets that making mistakes is part of the process 😂

This video was a double challenge: not only was I speaking Swedish, but I was also filming in public, which still makes me surprisingly nervous.

While editing, I spotted several mistakes. One of them I fixed because... let’s be honest, I accidentally swallowed an entire syllable and changed the word completely 🤣
And at some point I had to stop rewatching the video because every time I did, I found something new to cringe at. So instead of overthinking it, I’m pressing publish.

The funny thing is that I use Swedish almost every day. But mostly for work, client meetings, branding projects, websites, marketing, emails, and everyday errands.

Conversations about everything and nothing? Those are much rarer (@dzhana__beauty made me realise that 😆)

And that’s exactly why I need more practice.

So if you spot mistakes, feel free to correct me 🇸🇪 For these Swedish videos, I’ll be replying to Swedish comments in Swedish too.

Let’s see how this goes 😅

1️⃣ Follow for more honest moments from life in Sweden 🇸🇪
2️⃣ Share this with someone who’s learning a language and being way too hard on themselves ❤️
3️⃣ Save this as a reminder that progress comes before perfection 😉
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😱 Someone in Sweden just sold a box of Pokémon cards for 649,687 kronor.

Not a rare single card though. A sealed, unopened booster box from 2005: the EX Unseen Forces series, one of the most hunted sets in the world.

It sold on Tradera, Sweden`s biggest auction site, to a Danish collector who said he`d been searching for one for years. It`s the most expensive Pokémon item ever sold on the platfor, beating the previous record by almost 200,000 kronor.

And the Pokémon market in Sweden is genuinely exploding: over 540,000 cards sold on Tradera last year, up 276% from the year before. 📈

Twenty years ago, kids ripped these boxes open in seconds. The ones who didn`t… are rich now.

Go check your attic 👀
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😱 Someone in Sweden just sold a box of Pokémon cards for 649,687 kronor.

Not a rare single card though. A sealed, unopened booster box from 2005: the EX Unseen Forces series, one of the most hunted sets in the world.

It sold on Tradera, Sweden's biggest auction site, to a Danish collector who said he'd been searching for one for years. It's the most expensive Pokémon item ever sold on the platfor, beating the previous record by almost 200,000 kronor.

And the Pokémon market in Sweden is genuinely exploding: over 540,000 cards sold on Tradera last year, up 276% from the year before. 📈

Twenty years ago, kids ripped these boxes open in seconds. The ones who didn't… are rich now.

Go check your attic 👀
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2️⃣ Share with someone who collected Pokémon cards
3️⃣ Follow LikeSweden for more things Swedish
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