7.8% pay rises for the railway sector
The term of new collective agreement for the railway sector starts on 1 April 2025 and is three years long. Pay rises amount to 7.8%.
The Executive Committee of Trade Union JHL approved the negotiation result for the railways sector on 20 March. Service Sector Employers Palta, who represents the employer, has also approved the result.
This means that the new terms and conditions of employment for the railway sector professionals are confirmed and the collective agreement is updated with the contents of the negotiation result.
The new collective agreement term for the railway sector is three years
The new collective agreement term for the railway sector is three years (2+1), from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2028.
The 2+1 model means that the negotiating parties will review the pay rises of the final year by the end of November 2026.
Pay rises in the railway sector amount to 7.8%
The pay rises in the railway sector follow the general level of this collective agreement round. The professionals of this sector will get 7.8% pay rises over three years.
This is a so-called local pay settlement. It means that companies can negotiate internally a different pay settlement with the chief shop steward.
– In this settlement the ways, times and amounts of pay rises can be agreed locally, but the fallback is that if the matter cannot be agreed locally, everyone gets total pay rises of 7.8%, explains JHL’s Bargaining Specialist Miika Lumitsalo.
If local pay settlement is not achieved, pay rises are distributed as follows:
- Railways sector pay rises in 2025: 2.5%
- Railways sector pay rises in 2026: 2.9%
- Railways sector pay rises in 2027: 2.4% (unless agreed otherwise)
More information:
Miika Lumitsalo, Bargaining Specialist, 050 471 3408
Your trade union JHL negotiates on a number of collective agreements in 2025. Follow the negotiations on our website.
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JHL is the trade union for railway sector professionals. Our members work for example as train conductors in passenger traffic, railway yard workers, and tram and metro drivers. They also include professionals working in the maintenance of railway vehicles, trams, metro cars and urban rail tracks
