| Can't really help you with salary figure negotiation, but make sure the other things are covered in the process: 1) Check what medical health insurances are be offered by your employer. The public health care is handling any serious things very well, but there might be significant queues to get check-ups or treatment for small things, and this could be mightily annoying. [0] 2) Check how the employer helps you in finding an apartment. There's rent control in Stockholm, the rental market is dysfunctional, and actual rental contracts are a thing like property ownership is elsewhere (except that it's black market). [1] [2] These would be much more important than the last digits in you gross salary, out of which a significant part will be taken as taxes and mandatory social insurances. Most other things will probably be the same regardless of what your employer specifically does, so you can study the materials published by the Swedish government to learn about social issues. [3] [0] http://www.thelocal.se/20140117/hospital-queues-tied-to-insu... [1] http://www.thelocal.se/20130723/49206 [2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014241278873242023045790529... [3] http://work.sweden.se/living-in-sweden/social-benefits/ |