Before you can work for NTNU, you must enter into a written contract. Your fee will be paid out after the end date of your signed contract.

Norwegian: Oppdragstaker

E-mail from NTNU

A few days before your contract arrives, you will receive an e-mail from NTNU containing practical information on how to sign your contract.

How to sign your contract

You will receive the contract via email from DFØ, the supplier of the digital solution. Tutorial for foreign persons in English

Access the contract: Click the link in the email from DFØ to access the contract. To log in, click "Get password" to order a code via SMS. Enter the six-digit code and click "Sign in" to proceed.

Technical Issues: If you haven’t received the code within a few minutes, please try again after one hour. If you are still unable to receive the code, or should any other problems occur when signing the contract, please do not hesitate to contact the Service center (contact information at the end of this article).

Sign the contract: Read through the contract, confirm the details, and sign it, or reject it with an explanation.

After the contract has been signed, it will be available in the DFØ app and the Self-Service Portal.

When do you get paid?

The fee will be paid after the end date of the contract has passed.

Payslip

Foreign contractors without a Norwegian address or national identity number will have this automatically sent by DFØ by post.

If you do have Norwegian address or national identity, you will find the payslip in the Self-service portal or Altinn.

Calculation of fees

Contractors are not covered by the main tariff agreement. The contracting authority is free to agree with the contractor fees for an assignment independent of the state's salary plan booklet. There are no central guidelines for rates for external contractors. The units determine their own rates for different types of external assignments or with relevant contractors, including what the amount should include.

• Holiday pay (12%)
• Pension (4 % to defined contribution pension)
• Voluntary occupational injury benefit (See also NAV: The annual premium amounts to 0.4 percent of expected annual income outside of service.)
• Sick pay (the faculty/department's absence rate for short-term absence can, for example, be used as a basis)

The contracting authority is not obliged to include any of the additional costs in the rates for external contractors.

In case of deviations in the contract sum, contact the Service Center before the assignment is completed (contact info at the bottom of the page).

Travel expense claims, reimbursements and remunerations

You submit these through Betalmeg. Provided that your contract is signed and approved, you automatically get access to Betalmeg from the start date of the contract. Therefore, remember to set the start date in the assignment contract to a little before the person is due to travel.

You will have access to Betalmeg until you have been inactive for a year, your user will be deleted.

Contractors are not to register their actual fee in the Betalmeg solution. Betalmeg is only for expenses to be repaid. The actual fee will be paid to a contractor after the end date of the assignment.

Cost information for contractors

When a contractor has been contracted via Assignment and employment contract, the entity has already registered posting information. The external party shall leave the field "cost allocation" as the default unless they have been told by NTNU to enter a different cost allocation.

Self-employed?

Many of the assignments carried out for NTNU are to be paid as fees in the payroll system, and not as invoices in the accounting system.

Go Contractor versus self-employed person for more information.

Committee approval

The chairperson, members and secretaries of state committees are compensated for meeting preparations, work in meetings, etc., as stipulated in the administrative provisions of the State Personnel Handbook.

NTNU follows the indicative rates set by the Ministry in the administrative provisions.

Duties and rights

Contractors do not receive sick pay, holiday pay or pension premiums from the Norwegian Public Service Pension Fund from NTNU. Tax liability on payment of earned income applies.

Contact

If you need help with signing contract or have any questions about fees, you may contact the Service center.