Data we use
- Open positions – NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration)
All active job ads in Norway via NAV’s job feed. Used for the number of open positions, typical requirements and occupation suggestions (11,169 ads in the latest extract).
Licence: NAV’s terms for the job feed
- Yrkesbeskrivelser (occupation descriptions) – utdanning.no
599 occupations with tasks, qualities, workplaces, education and occupation codes, in Norwegian. Written by the editorial team and quality-checked by the world of work.
Licence: NLOD (Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data)
- Pay by occupation – Statistics Norway (SSB)
Table 11418, «Yrkesfordelt månedslønn» (monthly earnings by occupation) 2025: median and quartiles for full-time employees in 350 occupational groups. English occupation names come from the same table.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
- SIFOs referansebudsjett (SIFO reference budget) – OsloMet
What a household needs for a modest but adequate level of consumption. The basis for the budget calculator.
Licence: CC BY 4.0
- Tax rates 2026 – Skatteetaten (Norwegian Tax Administration)
Personal allowance, minimum standard deduction, national insurance contribution and bracket tax. Used to calculate between gross and net.
Licence: Public information
- Occupational classification STYRK-08 – Statistics Norway (SSB)
The Norwegian standard for occupation codes. It links NAV ads, occupation descriptions and pay figures.
Licence: NLOD (Klass API)
- ESCO – the EU’s skills and occupations classification
Norwegian skill names linked to STYRK-08, used for the skill suggestions in the CV studio. In the test: around 2,900 occupations with Norwegian and English names for the occupation search, and the most common essential skills for the occupations you choose. «This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.»
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU). Adapted: only skills linked to our occupation codes, and without very long names – the names themselves are unchanged
- World Economic Forum – Future of Jobs Report 2025
Figure 2.3: the jobs employers expect to grow fastest 2025–2030 (global survey). Used as "growing occupations" in the test. The Norwegian names and the link to occupation codes are ours.
Licence: Cited with reference; the figures are not reproduced
Open sources we have tested for the next step
- RIASEC Markers (Armstrong, Allison and Rounds, 2008)
The activities behind the RIASEC test on our site. Open (public domain); the Norwegian translation is our own.
Licence: Public domain
- utdanning.no API
Interests, pay and labour market per occupation and education. Open, but intended for their own services and without versioning – we use the open dataset above instead.
Licence: Not stated
Useful free tools
- Tax deduction card and the right tax – Skatteetaten (Norwegian Tax Administration)
- Compare banks, insurance and loans – Finansportalen (Norwegian Consumer Council)
- Find the cheapest electricity deal – Strømpris.no (Norwegian Consumer Council)
- Free careers guidance online – Karriereveiledning.no (HK-dir, Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills)
- Unemployment benefit (dagpenger) if you lose your job – NAV
- Help getting into work – NAV
- A CV template for all of Europe – Europass (EU)
- Student loans and grants – Lånekassen (Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund)
- Detailed pay statistics – Statistics Norway (SSB)
- Interest tests and career tools for advisers – Karriereverktøy
Our own tools
- The RIASEC test
Interests → occupations - Moments
Gut feeling → occupations - What could you be?
Skills → occupations → CV - Occupation register
Tasks, pay, open positions - Pay and needs
Which occupations cover what you need - What does the job need to pay?
SIFO budget → pay - CV studio
Simple, detailed, personal
What we are working on
- Photos and short clips in Moments, alongside text – from real working days.
- See which ESCO skills are missing to switch occupation.
- Commuting distance and working from home in the suggestions.
- Alerts when new positions match your test result (Pro).
Contains data under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) made available by utdanning.no. Changed: shortened and linked with open positions from NAV. Pay data: Statistics Norway, CC BY 4.0. We do not change the figures, but we shorten texts and link the sources together.