Salary and other conditions
All doctoral students at LTH have the right to supervision, resources at their department and good study conditions. This applies regardless of whether you are employed as a doctoral student at LTH, are an industrial doctoral student or if your doctoral education is funded by a scholarship. However, the working conditions differ depending on what financing you have, more about this below.
Doctoral student employed at LTH
You are employed as a doctoral student at LTH, receive your salary and your employment benefits via LTH and Lund University.
There is a specific salary scale applicable to doctoral students.
Newly employed doctoral students will normally be placed on the initial salary set by LTH, then your salary is increased in stages based on your level of education.
In addition to this, the salary is increased by a standardised amount that is determined in connection with each salary review.
The faculty decides on a step increase for doctoral students after registration of the achieved share of doctoral education in Ladok. The department must have procedures for reporting the achieved share of doctoral education once every six months and procedures for deciding on a step increase and registering the step increase in primula.
The salary is increased in different stages depending on whether you were employed as a doctoral student before or after 1 August 2023.
Salary stages at LTH
For doctoral students employed before 1 August 2023:
60 higher education credits – SEK 1,100
120 higher education credits – SEK 1,100
180 higher education credits – SEK 600
On completing doctoral studies – SEK 1,500 (paid at the end of the month following graduation)
For doctoral students employed after 1 August 2023:
120 higher education credits – SEK 2 300
180 higher education credits – SEK 1 200
On completing doctoral studies – 1 500 kr (paid on application by the doctoral student at the end of the month following the decision on the degree).
Primula
If you want to see your pay slip, apply for vacation or other matters concerning your employment, log in to the personnel system Primula and go to "My page”
Statens Servicecenter (SSC)
The National Government Service Centre (Statens servicecenter, SSC) deals with all payroll and salary payments for Lund University. Read more about when to contact SSC, on LTHin.
Read more about annual leave, leave of absence and sick leave on LTHin.
Annual leave, leave of absence and sick leave (LTHin, log in required)
Gym membership reimbursement, the health promotion hour, debit cards and partial reimbursement of healthcare and medication costs: find out more about the benefits to which you are entitled as an employee at Lund University.
On Lund University staff pages, there are various contacts to get union support.
Industrial doctoral student
As an industrial doctoral student, you are employed by a company, another university or authority and are at the same time admitted to third cycle programme at LTH.
You have the same rights as other admitted doctoral students at LTH regarding your doctoral education. You are also insured during your stay in LTH's premises Conditions between LTH and your employer (such as responsabilities and ownership of results) are regulated in an agreement. Terms of employment and salary are regulated by your employer.
External scholarship holders
At LTH, there are also doctoral students who are funded through certain external scholarships.
If your doctoral studies are financed with a scholarship, you have the same rights as other admitted doctoral students at LTH regarding your doctoral education. However, you are not employed at LU / LTH and are not entitled to benefits such as pension, parental benefit supplement, compensation for medicines et cetera.
As a scholarship holder, you have insurance via Kammarkollegiet which is to cover loss of income during illness or parental leave as well as an occupational injury insurance (in the event of an injury during working hours and on the way to or from work).
Through your admission as a doctoral student, you also have the right to receive support and help from Lund University's occupational health care for work-related ill health.
Health and parental insurance for doctoral students with stipends (Kammarkollegiet's website)