Malmö
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
MEDIUM. The named company collective agreement is cited to the signatory union and the rate was read from it: transport.se gives 'mellan 130,90 och 155,90 kronor i timmen' from 1 May 2026 for 'cykel och mopedbud som arbetar pa Foodora', so SEK 130.90 as the band floor is correct, and the cited archive resolves. The earlier 'pending live URL verification and Wayback capture' framing is discharged for that URL. Two weaknesses remain and are now stated in the row rather than pending: the time basis is settled by the Nordic Post source, which this city cites only from this round onward, and the median wage it is scored against is not published by the page cited for it.
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Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Transport, Foodora agreement (guaranteed hourly floor)
What would you take home in Malmö?
Take-home, weekly
$251
Take-home, monthly
$1,086
Gross, weekly
$404
Gross, monthly
$1,751
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $828/mo, rent eats most of your take-home (76% of monthly net).
Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.
Cost of living vs. earnings
That works out to roughly 23 hours per week. Rent at $828 per month is 36 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Malmö delivery driver in HUD's “cost-burdened” band by the federal definition (over 30 percent of gross income on housing). Measured against net take-home pay, which is what a worker actually has available to spend, the same rent is 57 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $700 per month. Across the 50 cities in the dataset, Malmö ranks 3rd for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Notes
National company agreement rate, identical across Sweden.
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Primary earnings source: www.transport.se/publicerat/avtal-klart-foodora-2025 · archived