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Home Care Nurse Salary in Finland 2026
Home Care Nurse pay is typically €3,850 a month.
The median salary is €3,850 and the average €3,940 a month. The figures are Statistics Finland’s earnings for the occupation group “Nurses” (2024), raised to July–September 2026. About €2,837 is left after tax. In job ads that state the pay, the median is €2,774 (53 ads).
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Updated 3 November 2026Cite this page
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The curve is Statistics Finland’s earnings for the occupation, raised to July–September 2026. Each marker applies the pay difference seen in job ads to it: 53 ads state the pay. A hollow dot means fewer than 20 ads.
Show the figures as a table
| Factor | Difference | Estimated pay | Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellbeing area or municipality | +€135 | €3,985 | 39 |
| Helsinki | +€46 | €3,896 | 5 |
| Espoo | +€43 | €3,893 | 4 |
| Mid-level | +€36 | €3,886 | 52 |
| Patient care | −€25 | €3,825 | 25 |
| Turku | −€26 | €3,824 | 2 |
| Oulu | −€33 | €3,817 | 4 |
| Private company | −€160 | €3,690 | 27 |
Estimate your own pay as a Home Care Nurse
Pick what fits your job. Each choice moves the €3,850 median by how differently its ads pay, and less when only a few ads back it. Job pages and search results price jobs the same way.
With nothing picked the estimate is the role median, €3,850 a month (middle half €3,390 to €4,560).
Home Care Nurse pay by employer sector, and starting pay
Statistics Finland’s median for full-time employees in each employer sector, raised to July–September 2026 with that sector’s own pay growth.
| Employer | Median now | Median 2024 | Full-time employees |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wellbeing areas | ≈€3,900 | €3,520 | 39,734 |
| Private sector | ≈€3,600 | €3,376 | 6,701 |
| State | ≈€3,870 | €3,744 | 642 |
Pay is highest in wellbeing services counties (about €3,900) and lowest in the private sector (about €3,600).
Collective agreement minimum
Under the SOTE agreement, the table pay is at least €3,080 a month (wellbeing services counties, pay group S3TVA1, level A, from 1/10/2026). It is a minimum: employers may pay more, not less.
Pay tables and supplements in the agreement ↗
Home Care Nurse earnings with supplements are about €1,080 higher than ads say
Job ads state the base pay. Statistics Finland counts everyone in the job, shift supplements included.
How tight is the Home Care Nurse job market?
At the end of September 2026, the occupation group nurses and nursing professionals had 6.4 unemployed jobseekers per open job, counting JobCrawls ads as well as the employment service register. The register alone gives 8.2: it only sees vacancies reported to the public employment services, and many jobs, most professional ones among them, are advertised only elsewhere.
The lower the number, the tighter the market: more openings for each jobseeker, and employers compete harder to hire. Across all occupations the figure is 9.7 (12.1 in the register alone).
Nurses and nursing professionals
Register and JobCrawls ads6.4
Employment service register8.2
All occupations
Register and JobCrawls ads9.7
Employment service register12.1
JobCrawls analysis of Statistics Finland and JobCrawls data. Unemployed jobseekers and vacancies: Statistics Finland, Employment Service Statistics (CC BY 4.0), end of September 2026. Open jobs are the register’s vacancies plus JobCrawls ads that are not on Job Market Finland. One ad can be for several positions, and ads we could not place in an occupation group are left out. · Data and reuse
Where the Home Care Nurse pay estimate comes from
Every figure on this page, who it counts and where it comes from. The headline is Statistics Finland’s; the job ads only set the differences between cities, sectors, levels, skills and languages.
Full-time employees in “Nurses”, 49,470
- Median, estimated for today≈€3,850July–September 2026, our estimate · 2024 figures × pay growth since (+9.9%, 14uw/14uv) ↗
- Average, estimated for today≈€3,940July–September 2026, our estimate · 2024 figures × pay growth since (+9.9%, 14uw/14uv) ↗
- Middle half, estimated for today≈€3,540 – €4,310July–September 2026, our estimate · Read off the curve through the 10%, median and 90% lines
- Median€3,5022024 · Statistics Finland 15au
- Average€3,5842024 · Statistics Finland 15au
- Bottom and top 10% lines€2,994 / €4,3172024 · Statistics Finland 15au
53 job ads for the role that state the pay
- Median starting pay offered€2,774Last 12 months · JobCrawls
| Figure | € / month | Who is counted | When | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Median, estimated for today | ≈€3,850 | Full-time employees in “Nurses”, 49,470 | July–September 2026, our estimate | 2024 figures × pay growth since (+9.9%, 14uw/14uv) ↗ |
| Average, estimated for today | ≈€3,940 | |||
| Middle half, estimated for today | ≈€3,540 – €4,310 | Read off the curve through the 10%, median and 90% lines | ||
| Median | €3,502 | 2024 | Statistics Finland 15au | |
| Average | €3,584 | |||
| Bottom and top 10% lines | €2,994 / €4,317 | |||
| Median starting pay offered | €2,774 | 53 job ads for the role that state the pay | Last 12 months | JobCrawls |
Statistics Finland publishes earnings by occupation once a year; the latest is 2024. Like the salary hub, we raise each figure by how much average full-time pay has grown since in the employer sectors where the occupation works, so today’s levels are estimates (≈).
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Common questions about Home Care Nurse pay
Short answers from the same figures.
What does a Home Care Nurse earn in Finland?
The median salary is about €3,850 and the average about €3,940 a month, from Statistics Finland’s earnings for the occupation raised to July–September 2026. Job ads for the role state a median of €2,774: ads quote base pay, without shift supplements.
How much of a Home Care Nurse’s pay is left after tax?
From €3,850 a month, about €2,837 is left after tax and the employee’s own contributions, at the average municipal tax rate without church tax.
What is the hourly pay for a Home Care Nurse?
About €24.06 an hour, counting the Statistics Finland median of €3,850 a month over 160 working hours.
What is the starting pay for a Home Care Nurse?
Under the SOTE agreement, the table pay is at least €3,080 a month (wellbeing services counties, pay group S3TVA1, level A, from 1/10/2026). It is a minimum: employers may pay more, not less.
What is Home Care Nurse pay in the private sector?
In the private sector the median is about €3,600 a month, against about €3,900 in wellbeing services counties.
Is Home Care Nurse pay good?
The median of €3,850 is 2% above the median for all full-time employees in Finland (€3,772).
Pay in related roles
Languages
33% of open ads accept English
Required languages in 3 open ads: Finnish 67 %, English 33 %.
How much is left after tax
| Gross a month | Take-home a month | |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest-paid tenth | €3,291 | €2,541 |
| Median | €3,850 | €2,837 |
| Best-paid tenth | €4,746 | €3,302 |
Gross pay from Statistics Finland. Take-home after income tax at the average municipal rate, without church tax, and the employee’s pension and unemployment insurance contributions.
Best-paying open jobs
Stated pay compared with the median €3,850.
Companies hiring Home Care Nurses
3 employers have open jobs for this role right now.
