Since last year’s salary review, eight vice-chancellors have left their posts. Those who remain in place have received salary increases of between 4 and 5.3 per cent in this year’s salary review, apart from the two who earn the most.
Lars Strannegård, at the Stockholm School of Economics, has a new monthly salary of SEK 247,400, which is an increase of 3 per cent. Martin Nilsson Jacobi, vice-chancellor at Chalmers, earns SEK 211,000 per month, an increase of 1.9 per cent.
Of the five vice-chancellors with the highest salaries, two are women. Karolinska Institutet’s Annika Östman Wernerson’s new monthly salary is SEK 151,900, while Astrid Söderberg Widding, at Stockholm University, is paid SEK 138,900. This places them in third and fifth place on the list, respectively.
The monthly median salary of vice-chancellors has increased from SEK 116,450 in 2023 to SEK 121,150 this year. Male vice-chancellors have a median salary of SEK 121,350, while that of their female colleagues is SEK 116,350.
New to the top five on the list is Måns Svensson, who replaced Agneta Marell as vice-chancellor of Jönköping University on 1 April this year. His new salary is SEK 140,500.
The most recent vice-chancellor appointment was made at the beginning of September this year, when Henric Johnson was employed at Blekinge University of Technology with a monthly salary of SEK 109,300. The other new vice-chancellors are Malin Broberg at Gothenburg University, Mia Rönnmar at Malmö University, Jörgen Elbe at Dalarna University, Anna Valtonen at the University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack), Ellen Røed at Stockholm University of the Arts and Per-Henrik Holgersson at the Royal College of Music, KMH.
The three vice-chancellors with the lowest monthly salaries in this context all work at artistic higher education institutions. Ellen Røed, at the Stockholm School of the Arts, earns SEK 109,000 and Per-Henrik Holgersson, at KMH, earns SEK 107,000. Sanne Kofod Olsen, vice-chancellor at the Royal Institute of Art, earns the least of all, with SEK 103,000 per month.
