What is it like working in Norway? What's the salary like compared to the US?

Nigga there's only 5 million of you

Difficult to get a job unless you speak Norwegian or have some sort of special education/skill that's high in demand. You could work in construction with the Poles for shit wage, but I'm guessing you don't want that. They also hire a lot of foreigners as servers in big cities like Oslo or Bergen for their friendly inclinations

>What's the salary like compared to the US?
Average wage is around 75 000 dollars before tax IIRC. Taxes are higher but the average net wage in Norway is still higher than in the US

>Also how much more expensive is it to live there?
Housing in big cities can get wicked expensive. Cars are also more expensive. Normal household products like milk, bread, soap, etc. are more expensive when seen on cost alone, but I don't think they will eat up a larger percentage of your average wage than in the US

Could an American just sorta stay there and blend in? Maybe find some niche work. There is SO MUCH riff raff hanging around here that if some Norwegian guy just showed up, he would have no problem blending right in and people would just think he belonged.

Figures you can Google so I'm not doing your homework.
You have several rights as an employee (* marks points mostly valid for full time jobs).
>Five weeks vacation
>>Employer must place an additional ≈10% of your salary into your vacation fund each year. 300kNOK=30kNOK payout in June
>Right to contract and paid training
>>From the day you set foot in the place as an employee
>Reimbursement for uniform, PPE, job related driving
>Decent public transportation in/out of central areas
>High tax
-30% income tax is not uncommon.
% VAT for goods and services, lower for food and culture/transport
>Good unions and employers are often organized themselves
>>Centralized tariff negotiation for your industry, to keep wages in tune with inflation and value creep
>Low unemployment
>>Meaning most jobs require pretty high level of skill/education and foreigners have trouble finding jobs because of name
>High degree of job security
>>Other than temp agencies, mandated minimum 2 written warnings before getting fired, very difficult to fire somebody if they come in on time and do their job.
>Stable economy
>>Few major shifts in what industries are viable, so many jobs are stable

Well I'm looking for Mechanical Engineering jobs, but I just graduated so... I don't know what you define as a special skill. It's not like I'm an expert in anything.

population density is a bit low to make that claim

highest purchasing power, all you need to know, if you have a job you are golden

Most of Norway is forest or mountain. Cities are overfilled and congested. Rural towns are fine but remote and often hell for kids growing up (two people their age etc)
Look into the big European engineering/entrepreneur corpos. Most have branches here and many are for skilled engineers.

if your job has fields having something to do with shipbuilding or oilrigs you are good, there are multinational companies operating in norway

Yeah I don't think you're guaranteed a job with that education. I remember reading a news story a couple of years ago about this Lithuanian guy who was an educated engineer with years of experience who couldn't even get a job in a garage. Though that could be because he was thieving Lithuanian scum.

Oil industry is in a bit of a recession so oil companies no longer snatch up anyone with an engineering degree like they used to

Nice salary bro.

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>tfw was norwegian citizen until I turned 22

:'( will you accept me back?

Jack, I... :'(

oil prices will go up, also thats the main thing about international companies, they dont just close up branches unless its a recession

>oil prices will go up
Yeah sure, but who knows when? How long will it stay up? Will the oil industry go back to the way it was before the recession? Will there be enough Norwegians with an engineering degree to fill the vacancy? My point being: the oil industry is in a state of uncertainty but at the moment getting a job just because you're an engineer seems unlikely

Apply for the locomotive school and drive trains, you could to that with a mech eng degree. Study two years and earn $100K/year

first price, what the fuck dude. Why would you ever buy that crap.

Jeg baker mine egne brǿd, men det er bokstavelig talt ingenting galt med billigbrod. Det er brǿd som er helt identiske i næringsverdi som brǿd til 30-40kr stk (bramat.no/forsiden/tester/2026-bramat-tester-grovbrod-2015). Nordmenn har blitt hjernevasket til å tro at billig=drittkvalitet. Om du ikke liker brǿdet er en annen sak.

My point was that cheap bread is available if you want to live on a limited budget. Also this

how much do the pole construction workers make?

2-3 times the salary and 3-3.5 times the expences. The american middleclass have better purchasingpower than the Norwegian one desu.

Just move there and live off the government gibs like the locals and refugees do

>100k/year for driving trains through dank fjords
Fucking sign me up fampai

what did he mean by this

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Like here in Switzerland, but worse

>Mechanical Engineering
yea good luck with that in current norway. Honestly only consider going if your family, specifically your aunt, is wealthy and prepared to basically have you freeload.

Shut up, princess. Food is food. It's literally just plain bread, still 20x better than most American bread or that shit you get in supermarkets in 3rd world countries. You're a privileged little shit and I'm only writing this in English to humiliate you so they all can see.