The annual rate of average salary has usually been around 2 percent in recent years.
As inflation has been low, the average wage earner has received a real wage increase.
Now that trend has reversed - so how much salary increase would you need without changing your lifestyle?
Frida Bratt, savings economist at Nordnet, has made a calculation of a standard family. See how to calculate the change their financial situation in the video above.
The crucial question: avoid inflation spirals
Many economists and analysts fear that excessive wages could lead to a so-called inflation spiral.
The horror scenario is that wages are raised to compensate for inflation, which leads to people continuing to buy goods and services at the same rate.
This in turn means that demand is maintained and inflation is pushed up.
Tighty?
Imagine that in such a scenario there would be more money to consume for - which means that prices simply continue to rise.
How can inflation affect our future wages?
Hear what the experts, LO and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise think:
How can inflation affect our future wages?
Economist
20 sec
The National Institute of Economic Research
28 sec
LO unions
51 sec
Swedish business
33 sec