Salary agreement catalogue: Five changes you need to know
The faculty’s newly revised salary agreement catalogue has just come into effect. It is important to be familiar with it ahead of negotiations on salary and allowances. Here are the five most important changes and adjustments in the catalogue.
Health's salary agreement catalogue
- Ensures transparency and fairness
- Provides an idea of what you can expect in terms of salary, allowances, and remuneration
- Useful to have on hand during salary negotiations
- Applies to both academic and administrative staff
- Is revised approximately every three years, with the latest version taking effect on 1 April 2026.
Health’s salary catalogue forms the framework for how you are remunerated for various functions and competencies. It creates transparency and makes practices visible across the faculty, which is why it is worth knowing – especially for you and your union representative ahead of salary negotiations.
The faculty’s salary agreement catalogue applies to both academic and administrative staff, although some agreements are specific to individual departments. The catalogue has just been revised, and the new version is effective from 1 April 2026.
Here are the most important changes and adjustments in the 2026–2029 salary agreement catalogue:
- More allowances for continuing and further education. There are now pre-agreed qualification allowances for:
- all relevant diploma programmes for all technical and administrative staff. Previously, only office staff, clinical assistants, graphic designers, laboratory technicians, and biomedical laboratory scientists had pre-agreed allowances.
- all relevant master’s programmes. Previously, only the Master of Public Health had a pre-agreed allowance.
- further training as a hospital physicist.
- More pre-agreed qualification allowances for PhD students, including psychologists and pharmacists.
- The section on academic coordinators at the Department of Clinical Medicine has been updated based on the latest agreement with the Central Denmark Region.
- Collective agreement-based allowance for doctors in specialist training at the Department of Forensic Medicine, as well as a new pre-agreed qualification allowance upon employment.
- Pre-agreed functional allowance for coordinators of research themes at the Department of Biomedicine.
See the full salary catalogue on the faculty’s website.
The work on the revised salary agreement catalogue, which applies from 1 April this year to 31 March 2029, has been carried out by the working group:
- Malene Hvid, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedicine
- Agnete Larsen, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedicine
- Bertha Beck Mortensen, Laboratory Technician, Department of Biomedicine
- Sune Keidser-Nilsson, Biomedical Laboratory Scientist, Department of Biomedicine
- Vivien Schack, Lab Manager, Department of Biomedicine
- Thomas G. Jensen, Head of Department, Department of Biomedicine
- Siri Beier Jensen, Head of Department, Department of Dentistry and Oral Health
Contact
HR Partner Johanne Meyer Balle
Aarhus University, Health Administration Centre – Health HR
Phone: +45 20 68 13 96
Email: jmb@au.dk
HR Partner Annet Bülow Højgaard
Aarhus University, Health Administration Centre – Health HR
Phone: +45 93 50 83 06
Email: aba@au.dk