You will receive your salary around the 12th day of each month.

You automatically become part of the PAYE scheme for your first year living in Norway. You can opt-out of it but it is generally better (meaning you pay fewer taxes) than the normal tax scheme. Afterward, each year, at the end of April, you will have to do your Income Tax Return (this can be done online, you will get notified when it is available via SMS and email ). If you have paid more taxes than you should during the year, you will get that money back at the end of June.

 

You will get some extra money for holidays called “feriepenger”. It is usually perceived in June, although you can change the month you receive it if you want to. We are entitled to get 12% of the gross salary of each month as “feriepenger”, once a year. This is extra, it does not substitute that month’s salary.

 

You have the right to 5 weeks’ holiday (25 days), however, holiday days are calculated based on how many months you worked the previous year. So 25 days are paid holidays if you worked 12 months, otherwise, you will get a proportional amount of days (which is used to be most people’s situation in the first year).

You can check Norwegian public holidays here.