Wages and working conditions

Wages and employment

Danish psychologists are employed in a variety of areas. They may, for instance, be employed in pedagogical psychological counseling, in hospitals, in crisis situations, as consultants in private companies or as self-employed psychologists in their own clinics. They may also work within various types of administrative, educational or communication oriented projects.
 
The Danish Psychological Association seeks to ensure the best possible employment conditions and  settings for practicing the profession of psychology both for members who are employed in the public-sector and the private-sector as well as for members pursuing the profession.
 
We can offer you assistance regarding wages and employment conditions. If you are a new graduate, we offer you immediate assistance and counseling. For all other members, we offer our assistance after six months of membership and only pertaining to cases which have occurred after your time of registration.
 

• Public employees: The Association organizes psychologists who are employed in the local municipalities, regions and the state and it has a collective agreement with all public employers. These agreements establish a great number of regulations regarding, for instance, the salary system, pension, working hours, resignation/redundancy, a child’s first sick day etc..
• Private employees: The Danish Psychological Association assists private-sector employees with specific counseling on wages and employment conditions and salary level, and readily reviews an employer’s proposed employment contract. In addition, the Danish Psychological Association has made agreements with a number of private organizations/companies which employ psychologists.
• Self-employed psychologists: The Danish Psychological Association also counsels psychologists who are self-employed. These individuals account for a large part of the Association’s members. The largest group consists of private practicing psychologists who work in the clinical field, approximately one half of which have an agreement with the National Health Service. Another large group consists of self-employed organizational and occupational psychologists.
   
  For more information on the requirements for working as a psychologist in Denmark, please go to “Education”.