Working hours

Your working hours depend on the type of employment you have. Here you can find information on working hours for teachers, researchers and postdoctoral fellows, as well as for technical and administrative staff

For you as a teacher

If you have a teaching position at Stockholm University, you have annual working hours. This means that the working hours for a whole year are fixed and that the working hours are based on the needs of the organisation and the needs of the employees. Annual working hours for teachers have applied since 1 January 1999.

The number of hours you have to work in a year depends on your age:

  • Until the year you turn 29, you work 1756 hours and have 28 vacation days.
  • From the year you turn 30, you work 1732 hours and have 31 vacation days.
  • From the year you turn 40, you work 1700 hours and have 35 vacation days.

All tasks included in the teaching post must fit within the annual working time. The allocation of working time is done in your department.

Detailed information on working hours for teachers can be found in the local collective agreement.

Central and local agreements

If you have scheduled teaching hours in the evenings and at weekends, a salary allowance of SEK 145 per hour will be added:

  • scheduled working hours, at least half of which are carried out after 18:00 on a weekday
    Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.

The starting point is that there should be no overtime beyond the total annual working time. If there are special reasons, teachers may be required to work additional hours or overtime. Overtime may not exceed a total of 150 clock hours in a calendar year. Those employed as professors are not entitled to overtime pay.

Additional hours are hours worked by a part-time employee in addition to their regular working hours. Additional hours are worked at the request of the employer. A part-time teacher may work additional hours up to a maximum of 175 clock hours per calendar year.

For you as a researcher and postdoctoral fellow

If you are employed as a researcher or postdoctoral fellow at Stockholm University, you have confidential working hours. This means that you organise your working hours based on the needs of the organisation and your own work tasks. Those who have trust working hours are not entitled to compensation for overtime.

Leaves of absence such as sick leave, parental leave, vacation, etc. are reported as absence according to your department's routines.

For you as a technical and administrative staff

If you are working full-time as a technical or administrative staff, the regular working hours are 8 hours per day, Monday–Friday, excluding public holidays. 08:00–16:30 with a 30-minute lunch break.

Non-working days for T/A staff:

  • Saturdays and Sundays
  • public holidays
  • Maundy Thursday
  • Midsummer Eve, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.

In years when Sweden’s National Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday, you as an employee are entitled to an extra day off at some point during that calendar year. Agree with your manager when it is appropriate to take the day off.

On certain days during the calendar year, regular working hours are reduced to 4 hours and 30 minutes, 8:00–12:30:

  • Epiphany if the day falls on a Monday–Friday
  • 30 April if the day falls on a Monday–Friday
  • the day before All Saints' Day
  • 23 December if the day falls on a Friday.

Working hours for T/A staff in 2024 Pdf, 177.2 kB.

Working hours for T/A staff in 2025 Pdf, 851.8 kB.

Bridge days are non-working days and the time is worked into regular working hours. A ‘bridge day’ is a Monday to Friday public holiday that falls between two days off.

Some members of staff may need to work on a bridge day in order for the University to provide the services and opening hours required of us as a public authority. This is primarily to provide services to the public and/or students.

If you are ordered to work on a bridge day, you are entitled to take leave at a later date for the same number of hours as you worked on the bridge day. You are also entitled to a salary supplement of SEK 50 for each hour worked.

Employees with other duties may also be ordered to work on bridge days. Compensation for overtime is given on such occasions.

As an employee, you have the possibility to work flexible hours to some extent. This is done on the basis of the needs of the organisation and fixed time frames for when the flexible working hours may be used. You register your flexible working hours in the flexitime system.

It is the employer who decides whether you as an employee should work overtime.

Overtime for you who work flexitime

Standby means time when the employee is at the employer's disposal during off-duty hours and is obliged to be available to attend the workplace when requested to do so or to deal with problems that can be dealt with remotely by telephone or computer when otherwise instructed. An employee who is on partial sick leave or partial parental leave shall not be obliged to be on standby.

Unless otherwise agreed, employees on standby must report to the workplace or other place specified by the employer within two hours of being called. If the employee is required to report to the workplace, overtime is payable. Overtime is counted from the time the notice was received until the employee returns home. If the employee is required to report for work, a minimum of two hours is paid.

For other events requiring work but not attendance, overtime is paid.

Standby allowance

The table shows how much the standby allowance is per hour.

Standby allowance

 

Monday 07:00 to Friday 19:00

SEK 30/hour

Friday 19:00 to Monday 07:00

SEK 60/hour

Between 19:00 on the day before Epiphany Christmas,
the day before 1 May, the day before National Day,
the day before Ascension Day and
07:00 on the next working day.

SEK 60/hour

Between 19:00 on the day before Maundy Thursday,
the day before Christmas Eve, the day before Midsummer Eve,
the day before New Year's Eve and
07:00 on the next working day.

SEK 120/hour

The amounts include holiday pay according to the Holiday Act.

The standby schedule shall be drawn up after consultation with the employee at least three weeks before it takes place.

If an employee on standby duty is required to report for duty that begins or ends between 01:00 and 05:00, the employee shall be released from duty until 12:00 on the same day at the earliest. If scheduling of standby cannot be done without violating regulations on weekly and daily rest, a special local agreement must be concluded between the parties before the standby schedule is implemented.

Contact

In the first place, please contact your department, if you have questions about your working hours.

Last updated: 2025-01-15

Source: Human Resources Office