If you are applying for a work visa and residence in Denmark, you should be aware that the Danish government has just instituted a new salary cap. The new offer of employment should fall within the normal range of salaries in Denmark. Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration (SIRI) looks up pay statistics from the Confederation of Danish Employers (DA) when assessing applications in order to determine whether a job offer is within the Danish pay-scale norm.
If you apply for a work permit and residency after June 30, 2024, your application will be assessed with the base quarter 2024 salary information. If you applied for your work permit and residency between April 1, 2024, and June 30, 2024, the information on salary from the fourth quarter of 2023 will be used in the assessment of your application.
Applications filed as of 1 July 2024 will be processed using the most recently published salary information. SIRI expects that the next publication of pay statistics will become effective on 1 October 2024. The figures will be updated on a quarterly basis.
If your application and contract of employment state that your salary shall correspond at least to DKK 71,020.83 per month level 2024 , SIRI will generally consider that your payment corresponds to the Danish requirements. For the majority of cases filed after January 1, 2021, the salary transfer will have to be made to a Danish bank account.Your wages and employment terms must correspond to Danish requirements when applying for a residence and work visa in Denmark based on salaried labor. You must be paid a wage in compliance with special requirements for a specific job group in Denmark.
This condition is applied to both first-time applications and applications for an extension.
It comprises the plans, such as the Pay Limit Scheme, Fast Track Scheme, Researcher Scheme, Positive List for Higher Education Professionals, Positive List for Skilled Employment, and many others. Even if you are applying for a work permit for a stand-alone work permit for a family member who would be accompanying you on a residence permit, it will have to be on Danish terms.
The only liquid funds considered under the salary Danish-criteria requirements are those that are definitively reimbursed, such as holiday allowance, labour market pension scheme fees, and fixed and guaranteed salaries.Besides the salary, benefits an employer can avail for an employee include board and lodging, in which case the benefits to the employee cannot be taken into consideration for whether the reward and terms of service to an employee reach the Danish standard.
Salaries are normally arrived at by not factoring in commissions and bonuses, which are not assured to you in your remuneration package.
New Rules as of mid-November 2023 enabled foreign employees to work in Denmark for a limited period without a residence or work permit. Within this rule, the employees from Denmark could be allowed to work for a total 180 days twice, but each term is separated by 14 days where the same employee would be mandated to go off from Denmark.
