Stockholm
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
Stays MEDIUM 2026-04-29 (Round I verification pass): No single tier-1 government source for delivery worker wages in Sweden because (a) no statutory minimum wage exists, and (b) platform couriers are not covered by major CBAs. The Nordic Post reporting (tier-2 specialty trade press) is currently the best available source. EU Platform Work Directive transposition (deadline December 2, 2026) may enable promotion to HIGH if the Swedish implementation establishes a clear minimum rate or presumption of employment with applicable CBA coverage.
Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.
Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Nordic Post Feb 2026 reporting + Eurofound Sweden country profile
What would you take home in Stockholm?
Take-home, weekly
$309
Take-home, monthly
$1,340
Gross, weekly
$442
Gross, monthly
$1,915
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $963/mo, rent eats most of your take-home (72% 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 24 hours per week. Rent at $963 per month is 38 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Stockholm 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 54 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $760 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Stockholm ranks 8th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Notes
No statutory minimum wage. Foodora's tariff agreement covers most riders.
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See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.
Primary earnings source: www.nordiskpost.com/2026/02/12/nordics-rider-are-paid-platform-delivery/ · archived