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Medicine & Surgery jobs in Finland for international graduates

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Job market at a glance

The jobs Medicine & Surgery leads to, added together. Each label compares Medicine & Surgery with the other Finnish fields.

Open vacancies vs last year+24.9% StrongKEHA Centre
Open vacancies316 StrongKEHA Centre
Average pay (calculated)€92,600 StrongStatistics Finland
Growth to 2035 (Cedefop)+21.1% ModerateCedefop
Change since 2023+2.9% ModerateStatistics Finland
People in these jobs12,518 ModerateStatistics Finland
Jobs on the EU shortage report (2025)40% ModerateEURES

People in these jobs: employees and entrepreneurs at the end of the year (Statistics Finland). Yearly pay is calculated by UNIFER from Statistics Finland's median full-time monthly earnings for regular working hours × 12 (overtime and holiday bonus not included). Statistics Finland publishes no lower-quartile pay, so no entry-level figure is shown.

Jobs this degree leads to

The jobs Medicine & Surgery courses most often lead to in Finland, and how each one is doing.

JobShareAverage pay Statistics FinlandGrowth to 2035 CedefopOpen vacancies KEHA Centrevs last year
1.Specialist medical practitioners€95,688+22.1%181+5%
2.Generalist medical practitioners€93,180+22.1%537+36.9%
3.University and higher education teachers€61,716+5.5%52+10.8%

Share: how common each job is among Medicine & Surgery destinations. Open vacancies: jobs reported to Finland's public employment service and still open at the end of each month, averaged over the last 12 months (vacancies peak every January), against the 12 months before (KEHA Centre). Swipe the table sideways for more.

What graduates like you earned

What young master's-degree holders in Health and welfare earn in Finland, working full time. Finland publishes no pay for recent graduates by field, and this is the whole broad field, not only Medicine & Surgery.

Master's-degree holders aged 25–29median, full time, 2024€66,100 Statistics Finland
All agessame degree level and field€58,200 Statistics Finland
Master's graduates in work1 year after graduating (graduated 2023, status at the end of 2024), same broad field95% Statistics Finland

Foreign-born tertiary graduates working in Finland earned 79.8% of what Finnish-born graduates earned (2018, full- and part-time workers together) OECD. Pay: Statistics Finland's median full-time monthly earnings for regular working hours × 12, calculated by UNIFER; overtime and holiday bonus not included, as in the jobs table. In work (Statistics Finland): graduates with a university master's degree who were employed at the end of the year after graduating, working students included.

Staying to work after you graduate

How international students stay to work in Finland after studying Medicine & Surgery.

1
Finish your course

A master's or a PhD from a Finnish university.

2
Permit to look for work
up to 2 years Migri

to look for a job or start a business in Finland. You can work without restrictions while you look, and use the permit in parts. Apply within 5 years of your student permit ending.

3
Work permit

Degree completed in Finland: with a Finnish degree you can get a residence permit for any job, with no salary minimum and no labour-market test. You only need enough income to live on: at least €1,210 a month after tax in the Helsinki area (less elsewhere).

Specialist permit or EU Blue Card: for expert jobs paying at least €47,244 a year (€3,937 a month). These are faster routes, not required for Finnish graduates.

Amounts are Migri's figures for 2026; yearly = monthly × 12.

Typical pay in Medicine & Surgery jobs vs the specialist / Blue Card salary Migri
€92,600
typical payminimum €47,244
Medicine & Surgery jobs on the EU shortage report for Finland (2025) EURES40%

In 2025, 2,338 non-EU students in Finland switched from a study permit to a work permit, 157 of them Indian citizens Eurostat.

Graduates living in Finland who are citizens of non-EU countries: 72.6% in work, against 89.2% of Finnish graduates (ages 25–64, 2025) Eurostat.

Medicine & Surgery in other countries

Typical pay for the same jobs (in US dollars in brackets, at October 2026 exchange rates), projected growth, and post-study work after a master's.

Finland€92,600 ($103,600)Growth +21.1% (2022–35) · Permit to look for work 24 monthsSwedenSEK 1,065,600 ($107,200)Growth +36.6% (2022–35) · Permit to look for work 12 monthsDenmarkDKK 1,125,800 ($168,600)Growth +11% (2022–35) · Job-seeking permit 12 monthsUnited Kingdom£68,600 ($91,700)Growth +9.8% (2025–35) · Graduate visa 18 monthsUnited States$152,400Growth +13.4% (2025–35) · OPT 12 months, 36 with the STEM extensionCanadaCA$279,500 ($199,700)Growth +27% (2023–33) · PGWP up to 36 months
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AustraliaAU$177,400 ($124,600)Growth +31.3% (2025–35) · 24 monthsIreland€45,100 ($50,500)Growth +5.1% (2025–28) · Stamp 1G 24 monthsGermany€91,800 ($102,800)Growth +6.3% (2023–40) · 18 monthsNetherlands€78,900 ($88,300)Growth +8.5% (2025–30) · Orientation year 12 monthsFrance€78,500 net ($87,900)Growth +8.2% (2022–35) · Job-search permit 12 monthsPolandPLN 181,700 ($46,300)Growth +63.3% (2022–35) · Permit to look for work 9 monthsSpain€45,800 ($51,300)Growth +6.4% (2022–35) · Job-search permit 24 monthsItaly€24,100 net ($27,000)Growth +15.7% (2022–35) · Permit to look for work up to 12 monthsBelgium€65,000 ($72,800)Growth +18.6% (2022–35) · Search year 12 monthsSwitzerlandJob search 6 months

Questions students ask

How much do Medicine & Surgery graduates earn in Finland?

Master's-degree holders aged 25–29 in Health and welfare earn a median €66,100 a year in Finland (full time), and €58,200 across all ages. 95% of university master's graduates in Health and welfare were in work one year after graduating (status at the end of 2024). Across all workers in these jobs, typical pay is €92,600.

Is Medicine & Surgery in demand in Finland?

Employers posted about 316 open vacancies on average for these jobs between September 2025 and August 2026, 24.9% more than a year earlier. Employment in these jobs is projected to grow 21.1% from 2022 to 2035.

Can I stay and work in Finland after a Medicine & Surgery master's?

Yes, for up to 24 months on a permit to look for work, free to work while you look. With a Finnish degree you can then get a residence permit for any job, with no salary minimum, as long as you have enough income to live on.

Where these numbers come from

Every figure comes from an official Finnish source. Tap a source tag next to any number for its details.

Cedefop Skills Forecast — future employment growth by occupation group, Finland, 2022–2035European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) · Cedefop: reuse with acknowledgement of the source (CC BY 4.0) · loaded 19 Oct 2026
EURES Report on labour shortages and surpluses — occupations in shortage, FinlandEuropean Labour Authority (ELA) / EURES National Coordination Office · European Labour Authority / EURES: reuse with acknowledgement of the source · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Change of immigration status permits, education to employment, Finland (migr_reschange)Eurostat · Eurostat reuse policy: free reuse with acknowledgement of the source (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Employment rates by educational attainment and citizenship, tertiary education, ages 25–64, Finland (lfsa_ergaedn)Eurostat · Eurostat reuse policy: free reuse with acknowledgement of the source (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU) · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Finnish post-study and work permit rules — Migri pages (read in a browser)Finnish Immigration Service (Migri) — transcribed and verified by UNIFER · Official government information · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Employment statistics — employed persons by occupation (StatFin tyokay/115q)Statistics Finland · CC BY 4.0 (Statistics Finland) · loaded 19 Oct 2026
Employment service statistics — vacancies by occupation at the end of the month (StatFin tyonv/12ti)KEHA Centre (Development and Administrative Centre for ELY Centres and TE Offices), published by Statistics Finland · Reuse terms not stated by KEHA (unverified); used with credit for educational, non-commercial purposes · loaded 19 Oct 2026

Indicative figures from official Finnish sources. They describe groups of graduates and workers, not what any individual will earn or be offered. Visa rules change, so check migri.fi before you decide.