How much does your office mate earn? And what about your boss?

[Translate to English:] Illustration: Morten Voigt

17 April 2018 by Marie Groth Andersen

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The website loenoverblik.dk was developed by the Agency for the Modernisation of Public Administration, the employer for the entire state sector, and the Danish Central Federation of State Employees’ Organisations, and is available to all.

On loenoverblik.dk, you can search for statistics on wage packages, average salary by gender, salary development in per cent over time, salary ranges for individual job titles and finally the number of employees in relation to the number of FTEs. The site is in Danish.

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The annual pay negotiations are underway, which traditionally piques our interest in comparing our salaries with what others make. On the loenoverblik.dk site, you can find out what your co-workers – and your boss – earn. More precisely, you can find out what people in the same job function earn at AU and the other Danish universities, not the salaries of named individuals.

The overview includes all job titles in use by more than three employees. For this reason, the salaries of the rector, the pro-rector and the university director are not included; the figures cited by Omnibus are from AU HR.

Six-figure monthly salaries at the top

The salaries of all three of AU’s top executives are comprised of base pay, supplements for qualifications and a fixed-term salary supplement. In addition to a 17.1 per cent pension contribution. The rector’s annual salary including pension contribution is DKK 1,733,866, which breaks down into a monthly salary of DKK 144,489. The pro-rector’s annual salary is DKK 1,455,708 including pension contribution, or DKK 121,309 per month. The university director’s annual salary is virtually identical: DKK 1,455,705, or DKK 121,309 per month.

The salaries of the four deans is included in the overview, and their average monthly paycheck is DKK 111,909. The five deputy directors earn DKK 87,111 per month on average, and the average monthly salary of the twelve vice-deans is DKK 86,372.

Not surprisingly, the less gilded end of the scale is occupied by students, trainees and apprentices, along with cleaners, cleaning assistants, labware cleaning assistants, semiskilled workers, animal technicians, caterers and dental surgery assistants, all of whom earn an average monthly salary under DKK 30,000, including pension contribution and permanent supplements but excluding nuisance bonuses and overtime.

Table 1: Aarhus University: Pay package by job title

Average salary by general salary category. Total monthly salary excluding nuisance bonuses, not including employees in flexi-jobs, etc

Job title		Average salary, monthly (DKK)
Job title	FTEs	Base salary	Pen- sion	Perm. suppl. cen- tral	Perm suppl local	Temp suppl local	One- off re mu- ne- ra- tion	Ot- her sup- ple- ments	Total salary excl. nui- sance bonus
Adm. officer (AC)	3,9	26.077	5.013	3.434	440	0	0	0	34.964
Assistant professor	257,3	30.159	6.031	4.221	1.226	157	231	0	42.025
Adm. centre manager	4,0	45.433	12.314	532	15.919	10.485	1.042	0	85.725
Senior clinical instruc- tor in dentistry	7,2	47.143	9.577	6.108	244	52	139	0	63.262
Academic staff	401,7	29.148	6.189	356	5.999	90	65	14	41.862
Caretaker	7,0	22.118	4.151	0	4.115	176	119	0	30.679
Librarian	35,4	29.015	6.089	676	5.251	66	28	0	41.125
Bio- medical laboratory scientist	51,3	26.836	5.564	611	1.430	185	0	0	34.625
Con- structing engineer	3,9	27.895	5.729	0	4.765	222	0	0	38.611
Caterers	17,6	21.831	3.860	0	4.015	118	0	0	29.824
Catering trainee	3,3	14.368	1.457	0	0	0	0	0	15.825
Centre Director	3,0	37.768	10.469	3.761	11.467	7.243	5.233	0	75.941
Senior consultant	92,3	42.259	8.386	0	5.167	626	169	0	56.606
Data technician trainee	5,0	14.164	1.226	0	0	0	0	0	15.390
Dean	4,0	50.667	16.231	8.342	22.673	12.253	1.744	0	111.909
Managing Director	4,0	43.126	11.302	0	10.394	11.594	1.792	0	78.208
Buildings inspector	5,0	26.788	7.173	716	16.783	434	0	0	51.895
Buildings manager	5,9	27.554	6.381	2.937	5.204	1.641	0	0	43.718
Animal technician	23,2	23.545	3.831	0	1.982	239	179	-16	29.761
Animal technician trainee	8,0	10.646	1.760	0	2.743	0	0	0	15.149
Property service tech- nician	9,0	23.455	3.906	0	3.879	68	93	0	31.400
Property service technician trainee	5,0	19.584	2.115	0	0	0	0	0	21.699
Exam super- visor	9,6	15.918	160	0	0	0	0	0	16.078
Part-time lecturer	36,8	35.985	133	34	0	0	102	0	36.254
Elec- tronics tech- nician trainee	3,0	15.580	1.933	0	0	0	0	0	17.512
Specialist teacher	11,3	27.412	5.981	2.411	1.790	51	111	0	37.756
Re- searcher	25,6	30.194	6.398	4.283	1.844	102	56	0	42.877
Research technician	14,0	27.123	5.476	0	7.052	0	119	0	39.770
Experi- mental assistant	55,5	23.738	3.984	248	2.945	242	35	0	31.191
Photo- grapher trainee	5,0	16.548	1.781	0	0	0	0	0	18.329
Admini- strator	534,9	28.907	5.858	4.192	2.072	22	88	1	41.141
Division manager	46,9	41.098	9.610	4	12.898	1.377	169	0	65.156
Gardener	14,6	23.656	4.392	0	4.460	327	0	87	32.922
Gardener trainee	3,0	16.339	1.900	0	0	0	0	0	18.239
Labware cleaning assistant	6,4	19.986	3.604	300	3.774	96	0	0	27.760
Graphic designer	7,5	30.460	5.382	312	3.763	0	39	0	39.956
Skilled trades- man	68,7	24.181	4.612	159	5.889	415	0	0	35.256
Industrial technician trainee	4,0	12.951	1.365	0	0	0	0	0	14.316
Assistant Engineer	28,5	26.984	5.438	23	6.669	515	29	0	39.658
Senior professor of engi- neering	11,2	45.268	9.609	5.166	4.702	1.449	0	0	66.194
Head of depart- ment	25,0	42.127	12.375	4.963	8.557	15.598	849	0	84.471
Student Teacher	5,6	28.816	633	0	0	0	0	0	29.450
IT staff	158,2	27.557	5.098	672	4.960	86	56	0	38.428
IT supporter trainee	9,0	14.574	1.770	0	0	0	0	0	16.344
Agricul- tural techno- logist	40,0	24.024	4.221	2.239	2.925	302	0	0	33.710
Jour- nalist	20,1	28.073	7.345	270	11.315	288	50	0	47.340
Dental surgery assistant	42,3	24.579	4.006	0	872	17	0	0	29.473
Clinical instructor odonto	9,0	37.359	7.108	3.237	67	0	0	0	47.770
Clinical professor and chair	9,1	40.579	4.172	0	254	0	0	917	45.922
Clinical profes- sor	22,9	40.839	4.145	365	0	540	7	0	45.897
Assistant conser- vator	5,0	24.161	4.149	0	4.759	261	0	0	33.329
Office trainee	20,4	15.607	1.740	0	0	0	0	0	17.347
Adm. officer	515,4	27.524	4.443	16	1.578	74	71	0	33.707
Bilingual secretary	30,4	23.625	5.723	924	7.156	128	126	0	37.683
AP Graduate in Chemical and Bio- technical Science	273,4	27.597	4.451	56	1.135	116	37	-1	33.392
Labora- tory trainee	6,0	18.318	1.751	44	0	0	0	0	20.113
Agricul- tural worker	5,2	23.324	4.019	0	2.985	0	0	0	30.328
Agricul- tural worker trainee	3,0	10.646	1.363	0	4.604	0	0	0	16.613
Principal dentist	3,2	30.194	6.921	497	13.975	724	0	0	52.310
Associate Professor	947,1	30.261	7.665	8.112	5.216	656	402	0	52.311
Associate professor - fixed term	58,2	30.195	7.053	7.793	3.612	181	27	0	48.862
Senior machi- nist	8,0	31.097	7.114	0	9.827	261	0	0	48.299
PhD Students	1.066,7	26.534	3.984	1.298	307	7	8	16	32.153
Postdoc	3,5	30.194	6.085	4.283	0	0	0	0	40.561
Postdoc	647,5	29.907	5.601	4.238	475	19	46	33	40.319
Vice-dean	12,0	40.776	12.518	5.113	18.719	8.321	925	0	86.372
Professor	319,9	46.136	9.858	4.579	4.860	1.307	1.267	66	68.073
Professor MSO	84,3	30.199	8.928	16.545	4.352	789	216	137	61.166
Professor - fixed -term	27,7	45.374	9.254	2.164	6.116	778	687	0	64.374
Cleaning assistant	164,0	20.000	3.328	34	1.649	120	0	9	25.139
Cleaner	44,7	19.955	3.111	90	1.402	0	19	0	24.576
Head of secre- tariat	30,5	39.735	8.094	266	7.737	182	762	0	56.776
Senior re- searcher	189,5	30.254	7.978	9.350	5.712	379	61	0	53.733
Senior adviser	30,1	30.194	7.644	8.244	4.759	502	0	0	51.343
Semi- skilled worker	7,9	20.005	3.812	504	5.170	0	0	0	29.491
Special consul- tant	249,7	39.277	7.499	73	3.247	264	154	94	50.608
Dental specialist cand.	9,0	29.806	5.265	0	0	0	0	0	35.071
Student coun- sellor	8,5	26.070	593	0	0	0	0	0	26.663
Students	28,4	16.819	1.643	0	0	0	0	0	18.462
Teaching assistant professors	10,0	30.194	5.485	3.473	572	174	0	0	39.897
Teaching associate professors	26,9	30.193	7.106	6.541	3.802	0	882	0	48.525
Nurse	5,0	29.056	6.629	869	3.510	1.737	367	0	42.167
Odon- tology	6,3	30.194	7.053	1.562	7.787	607	638	0	47.840
Dental techni- cian	6,8	24.160	4.474	25	4.971	0	0	0	33.630
Team leder	3,0	25.606	6.306	0	13.300	1.158	278	0	46.648
Technician	8,4	23.290	5.020	1.384	6.311	196	0	0	36.201
Tenure Track	46,0	30.194	5.150	4.283	1.293	850	169	190	42.129
136 Teaching assistant professor	3,5	30.193	6.407	3.814	2.432	0	357	0	43.203
Teaching assistant	13,9	27.260	6.474	2.231	3.234	1.459	60	0	40.717
Vete- rinary nurse	3,0	23.603	3.865	0	4.610	290	0	0	32.367
Deputy director	5,0	45.268	12.718	0	7.664	20.461	1.000	0	87.111
Research assistant	258,5	27.033	5.087	3.246	170	8	15	6	35.565
Groups under 3 FTEs	*	32.365	6.591	1.721	7.450	2.437	72	0	50.636

Temporary local supplements include fixed-term salary supplements.
Other supplements include additional one-off salary supplements excl. nuisance bonuses.
Groups of job titles with less than three FTEs have been merged in the same category to ensure anonymity.

Is your salary champagne? Or discount beer?

As few of us have salaries identical to the average salary, it is also interesting to check the range of salaries within a particular job category. This can give you an idea of whether your salary lies towards the top or the bottom of the salary scale for your job category.

Table 2: Salary range
Average salaries and quartiles

Job title		Salary per month (DKK)
Job title	FTEs	Avg. salary	Lower quartile	Median	Upper quartile
Administrative officer (AC)	3.9	34,964	*	*	*
Assistant professor	257.3	42,025	40,540	41,790	43,315
Administration centre manager	4.0	85,725	*	*	*
Senior clinical instructor in dentistry	7.2	63,262	*	*	*
Academic staff	401.7	41,862	37,637	42,137	45,575
Caretaker	7.0	30,679	*	*	*
Librarian	35.4	41,125	38,281	39,549	43,112
Biomedical laboratory scientist	51.3	34,625	32,950	34,641	36,043
Constructing engineer	3.9	38,611	*	*	*
Caterers	17.6	29,824	24,804	28,804	32,713
Catering trainee	3.3	15,825	*	*	*
Centre Director	3.0	75,941	*	*	*
Senior consultant	92.3	56,606	53,574	55,948	58,237
Data technician trainee	5.0	15,390	*	*	*
Dean	4.0	111,909	*	*	*
Managing Director	4.0	78,208	*	*	*
Buildings inspector	5.0	51,895	*	*	*
Buildings manager	5.9	43,718	*	*	*
Animal technician	23.2	29,761	27,399	28,731	30,659
Animal technician trainee	8.0	15,149	*	*	*
Property service technician	9.0	31,400	*	*	*
Property service technician trainee	5.0	21,699	*	*	*
Exam supervisor	9.6	16,078	*	*	*
Part-time lecturer	36.8	36,254	36,065	36,119	36,151
Electronics technician trainee	3.0	17,512	*	*	*
Specialist teacher	11.3	37,756	35,866	37,353	37,866
Researcher	25.6	42,877	42,065	42,065	43,591
Research technician	14.0	39,770	38,590	40,286	40,417
Experimental assistant	55.5	31,191	28,731	30,330	33,268
Photographer trainee	5.0	18,329	*	*	*
Administrator	534.9	41,141	39,492	42,151	44,205
Division manager	46.9	65,156	62,986	65,511	66,914
Gardener	14.6	32,922	30,699	32,567	33,365
Gardener trainee	3.0	18,239	*	*	*
Labware cleaning assistant	6.4	27,760	*	*	*
Graphic designer	7.5	39,956	*	*	*
Skilled tradesman	68.7	35,256	32,450	34,637	36,490
Industrial technician trainee	4.0	14,316	*	*	*
Assistant Engineer	28.5	39,658	36,975	38,590	39,935
Senior professor of engineering	11.2	66,194	63,385	65,369	67,780
Head of department	25.0	84,471	78,349	86,474	86,476
Student Teacher	5.6	29,450	*	*	*
IT staff	158.2	38,428	30,043	37,303	42,448
IT supporter trainee	9.0	16,344	*	*	*
Agricultural technologist	40.0	33,710	31,153	33,023	34,843
Journalist	20.1	47,340	40,640	46,093	50,050
Dental surgery assistant	42.3	29,473	28,246	29,204	30,555
Clinical instructor odonto	9.0	47,770	*	*	*
Clinical professor and chair	9.1	45,922	*	*	*
Clinical professor	22.9	45,897	44,622	44,622	44,622
Assistant conservator	5.0	33,329	*	*	*
Office Trainee	20.4	17,347	15,192	15,223	21,491
Administrative officer	515.4	33,707	30,310	33,313	35,831
Bilingual secretary	30.4	37,683	35,459	37,324	38,989
AP Graduate in Chemical and Biotechnical Science	273.4	33,392	31,745	33,419	35,690
Laboratory trainee	6.0	20,113	*	*	*
Agricultural worker	5.2	30,328	*	*	*
Agricultural worker trainee	3.0	16,613	*	*	*
Principal dentist	3.2	52,310	*	*	*
Associate Professor	947.1	52,311	49,390	52,034	54,720
Associate professor - fixed term	58.2	48,862	48,617	49,105	50,142
Senior machinist	8.0	48,299	*	*	*
PhD Students	1,066.7	32,153	29,843	32,049	34,062
Postdoc	3.5	40,561	*	*	*
Postdoc	647.5	40,319	40,540	40,540	40,998
Vice-dean	12.0	86,372	82,655	83,186	89,317
Professor	319.9	68,073	61,874	66,172	71,779
Professor MSO	84.3	61,166	58,405	59,603	62,797
Professor – fixed-term	27.7	64,374	60,621	61,965	64,824
Cleaning assistant	164.0	25,139	23,829	24,564	25,336
Cleaner	44.7	24,576	23,109	24,029	25,273
Head of secretariat	30.5	56,776	53,790	56,569	59,499
Senior researcher	189.5	53,733	51,048	53,622	55,673
Senior adviser	30.1	51,343	49,166	50,692	52,401
Semiskilled worker	7.9	29,491	*	*	*
Special consultant	249.7	50,608	47,562	49,597	52,757
Dental specialist cand.	9.0	35,071	*	*	*
Student counsellor	8.5	26,663	*	*	*
Students	28.4	18,462	18,265	18,528	18,620
Teaching assistant professors	10.0	39,897	38,993	39,990	40,326
Teaching associate professors	26.9	48,525	44,161	47,091	50,473
Nurse	5.0	42,167	*	*	*
Odontology	6.3	47,840	*	*	*
Dental technician	6.8	33,630	*	*	*
Team leader	3.0	46,648	*	*	*
Technician	8.4	36,201	*	*	*
Tenure track	46.0	42,129	40,540	41,159	43,591
136 Teaching assistant professor	3.5	43,203	*	*	*
Teaching assistant	13.9	40,717	36,712	39,719	42,162
Veterinary nurse	3.0	32,367	*	*	*
Deputy director	5.0	87,111	*	*	*
Research assistant	258.5	35,565	32,968	35,224	39,260
Groups under 3 FTEs	*	50,636	29,705	39,730	58,437

Calculation of quartiles for part-time employees is based on a conversion of salaries to full-time levels.
Groups of job titles with less than three FTEs have been merged in the same category to ensure anonymity.
Fields marked * cannot be shown, as there are too few FTEs to calculate the statistics.

And what about the gender pay gap?

loenoverblik.dk can also tell us something about the status of equal pay at Aarhus University, based on the average monthly salaries of men and women in the different job categories. The wage gap between female technicians and their male co-workers is especially large; men earn an average of DKK 40,221 per month, while women take home DKK 33,441. Female technicians account for five FTEs at AU, while men account for 3.4 FTEs.

On the other hand, among animal technicians women earn more than men on average. Women (20 FTEs) earn DKK 29,921 per month, while men (3.2 FTEs) earn DKK 28,769.

Table 3: Average salary by gender
Women’s average salary expressed as an index in relation to men’s average salary

Job title	FTEs		Average salary, monthly (DKK)
Job title	Men	Women	Men	Women	Index (Men = 100)
Assistant professor	153.8	103.5	42,150	41,841	99
Academic staff	184.6	217.1	43,169	40,750	94
Librarian	9.7	25.7	40,591	41,327	102
Caterers	4.6	13.0	31,787	29,125	92
Senior consultant	38.8	53.5	57,833	55,715	96
Animal technician	3.2	20.0	28,769	29,921	104
Exam supervisor	4.3	5.4	16,081	16,075	100
Part-time lecturer	24.4	12.5	36,204	36,353	100
Researcher	14.8	10.8	42,902	42,842	100
Experimental assistant	37.1	18.4	31,602	30,365	96
Administrative officer	143.4	391.5	41,152	41,136	100
Division manager	20.0	26.9	65,648	64,790	99
Gardener	10.9	3.7	33,260	31,937	96
Graphic designer	4.0	3.5	41,637	38,043	91
Skilled tradesman	65.0	3.8	35,375	33,194	94
Head of department	21.0	4.0	84,799	82,728	98
IT staff	132.2	26.0	38,442	38,361	100
Agricultural technologist	27.4	12.5	33,952	33,181	98
Journalist	6.0	14.1	48,313	46,925	97
Clinical instructor odonto	3.6	5.4	48,130	47,534	99
Clinical professor	17.8	5.1	46,156	45,000	97
Administrative officer	48.4	467.1	32,834	33,797	103
AP Graduate in Chemical and Biotechnical Science	41.6	231.8	33,486	33,375	100
Associate Professor	605.1	342.0	52,650	51,712	98
Associate professor - fixed term	33.7	24.6	48,819	48,921	100
PhD Students	507.7	559.1	31,705	32,561	103
Postdoc	359.3	288.2	40,204	40,464	101
Vice-dean	9.0	3.0	86,467	86,088	100
Professor	254.1	65.8	68,690	65,689	96
Professor MSO	57.5	26.8	61,618	60,195	98
Professor – fixed-term	23.3	4.4	64,922	61,469	95
Head of secretariat	4.5	26.0	57,540	56,644	98
Senior researcher	139.0	50.4	53,720	53,768	100
Senior adviser	24.2	5.9	51,569	50,413	98
Special consultant	106.6	143.1	51,115	50,230	98
Dental specialist cand.	3.0	6.0	35,524	34,844	98
Students	9.0	19.4	18,494	18,448	100
Teaching assistant professors	4.0	6.0	39,923	39,880	100
Teaching associate professors	16.2	10.7	49,606	46,895	95
Technician	3.4	5.0	40,221	33,441	83
Tenure track	31.0	15.0	42,569	41,219	97
Research assistant	110.0	148.5	35,807	35,386	99
Groups under 3 FTEs	*	*	39,210	31,270	80

Groups of job titles with less than FTEs in either gender or both genders have been merged in the same category to ensure anonymity.

Translated by Lenore Messick

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