Regional senior deal sets 2% bonus for doctors and dentists from 2027

Employees in regional service fall under a new senior-policy framework for 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2029Okportal, agreed between Regionernes Lønnings- og Takstnævn and AkademikerneOkportalOkportal. It replaces the rammeaftale om seniorpolitik of 12 November 2025Okportal and covers personnel in regional service and staff at selvejende institutioner with a driftsaftale with a region, unless another collective-agreement basis applies there. Earlier agreements on seniorstillinger, generationsskifte- and fratrædelsesordninger remain valid on their terms.

The seniorbonus in Bilag 1 is available to every employee who meets the age testOkportal, paid each January with a pro-rata share for joiners and leavers. Group 1, including husassistenter, rengøringsassistenter, service staff at hospitals, most social- og sundhedspersonale and certain leaders and consultants, earns it from the year after the calendar year they turn 58. Group 2, all other groups outside groups 1 and 3, earns it from the year after they turn 60. Rates are 0.8% of sædvanlig løn at 58/60, 1.2% at 59/61 and 1.6% at 60/62 and above. Academics in regions receive 0.8% from the year after they turn 62. Group 3, social- og sundhedshjælpere, social- og sundhedsassistenter, socialpædagoger, hjemmevejledere and faglærere, earns 0.8% at 59, 1.2% at 60 and 1.6% at 61, with thresholds rising with the folkepensionsalder under the Trepartsaftale of 4 December 2023. From 1 April 2027 social- og sundhedspersonale med særligt fagligt ansvar joins group 3.

From 1 April 2027 employees under the overenskomst for speciallæger og overlæger, the overenskomst for tandlæger and the Aftale for lægelige chefer receive an annual seniorbonus of 2.0%Okportal from the year after the calendar year they turn 62Okportal. The bonus can be converted into betalte fridage (seniordage) of up to five days, extraordinary pension contributions, or a combination.Okportal The general conversion gives up to two, three or four seniordage by age band, each valued at 0.4% of annual pay and 7.4 hours for full-time staff, lapsing at year-end unless transfer is agreed or the employer failed to schedule them. Employees elect conversion by 1 October of the preceding year after discussion in the annual medarbejderudviklingssamtale. This 2.0% deal supersedes the OK-24 bonuses of 1.6% for speciallæger, 3.2% for doctors in formalised on-call, and 0.8% for tandlæger from 1 January 2025.Okportal

Staff aged 52 and over can be offered a seniorstilling with reduced hours, changed duties or a non-managerial role, keeping pension rights by prior salary and employment rate and allowing udligningstillæg up to the pay gap, up to two years of extraordinary pension age or contributions for those 55 and over who leave after 62, and a fastholdelsesbonus on exit after 62. Managers aged 54 and over can conclude a generationsskifteaftale of up to six years ending at 60 at the earliest, with a supplement of up to 15% of salary, a retention bonus of up to three months' salary plus one month per agreement year, and pension improvements. Leavers can receive up to six months' fratrædelsesgodtgørelse, up to four years of extraordinary pension age or contributions from age 60, and up to six months' tjenestefri med sædvanlig løn for non-civil servants.

Leaders must raise continued-employment prospects in the yearly review, and MED-udvalg follow up on use of the framework. Legal basis is Rammeaftale om seniorpolitik (OK-26) §§ 1-17 with Bilag 1-4, agreed between Regionernes Lønnings- og Takstnævn and Akademikerne.