Note 7 - Averange number of employees, sickness absence, salaries, other remuneration and social securety costs, etc.

Average number of employees
	2009		2008
	No. of	Of whom,	No. of	Of whom,
	employees	women %	employees	women %
Parent Company
Sweden
– land-based	85	42	91	36
– shipboard	332	2	373	3
Total, Parent Company	417	10%	464	10%

Subsidiaries
Sweden
– land-based	49	39	64	39
– shipboard	536	9	478	8
UK
– land-based	44	28	49	27
Finland
– land-based	4	25	3	0
Total, subsidiaries	633	13%	594	13%
Group total	1,050	12%	1,058	11%

Sickness absence
	Parent Company
%	2009	2008
Parent Company
Total sickness absence	3.5	3.7
– long-term sickness absence	1.9	2.2
– sickness absence for men	3.5	3.9
– sickness absence for women	2.3	1.4
– employees under 29 years	0.8	0.8
– employees 30–49 years	2.5	3.7
– employees over 50 years	5.2	10.0

Salaries, other remuneration and social security costs
	2009		2008
		Social		Social
		security		security
		costs (of		costs (of
	Salaries	which,	Salaries	which,
	and remu-	pension	and remu-	pension
SEK 000s	neration	costs)	neration	costs)
Parent Company ¹⁾	217,247	112,183	211,682	102,151
		(34,094)		(27,597)
Subsidiaries in Sweden	250,095	116,293	234,629	114,762
		(27,346)		(27,261)
Foreign subsidiaries	8,698	947	7,083	1,614
		(643)		(582)
Group total	476,040	229,423	453,394	218,527
		(62,083)		(55,440)

1) Salaries and remuneration were reduced by SEK 3,382,000 (3,217,000), capitalized as work on the company’s own behalf involving ongoing new construction projects.

Salaries and other remuneration by country
	2009		2008

	Board and	Other	Board and	Other
SEK 000s	President	employees	President	employees
Parent Company
Sweden	14,309	202,939	7,771	203,911
Total, Parent Company	14,309	202,939	7,771	203,911
Subsidiaries in Sweden	96	249,999	6,075	228,554
Foreign subsidiaries
Netherlands	—	—	—	—
UK	740	4,772	605	4,594
Finland	—	3,186	—	1,884
Total, foreign
subsidiaries	740	7,958	605	6,478
Group total	15,145	460,896	14,451	438,943

The Parent Company received a government shipping subsidy of SEK 98,221,000 (103,975,000) and the total shipping subsidy received by the Group amounted to SEK 172,799,000 (177,672,000). The net figures above denote amounts before reductions for the government shipping subsidy received.

Remuneration paid to the Board of Directors
SEK 000s	Board fee
Folke Patriksson, Chairman	400
Håkan Larsson	200
Helena Levander	200
Ulf G Lindén	67
Jenny Lindén Urnes	133
Lena Patriksson Keller	200
Christer Olsson	200
Björn Rosengren	200
Christer Lindgren	—
Total	1,600

During the ten-year period 2004–2013, the Board Chairman is entitled to a pension corresponding to 70% of his final annual salary. Subsequently, a lifelong defined-benefit pension is paid corresponding to the ITP plan. To cover the company’s commitment for this, pension-insurance plans have been signed. The company’s assets in such insurance plans and its obligations regarding these pensions are included in the provisions described in Note 24.

Remuneration paid to senior executives
		Other	Pension
SEK 000s	Salary	benefits	premium	Total
Acting President Stefan Eliasson	1,532	49	665	2,246
President Anders Källström ¹⁾
(employed until December 17, 2009)	9,054	95	1,179	10,328
Vice President Mathias Wideroth ²⁾(employed until January 7, 2009)	1,179	49	507	1,735
Other senior executives, five persons (4)	4,520	229	1,557	6,306
Total	16,285	422	3,908	20,615

1) The amount includes 18 months’ severance pay and six months’ redundancy pay to Anders Källström, who left his position in 2009, amounting to salary of SEK 6,000,000, benefits of SEK 36,000 and pension premiums of SEK 375,000.

2) The Executive Vice President of the Parent Company had an agreed annual salary of SEK 1,920,000 and a defined-contribution pension agreement with payments corresponding to 25% of basic salary. The President has the use of a company car. Mathias Wideroth left his position at his own request on January 7, 2009. The severance payment amounted to six months’ salary.

The Parent Company’s Acting President Stefan Eliasson will receive an annual salary of SEK 2,400,000 and a defined-contribution pension agreement corresponding to 25% of basic salary. The Acting President has a company car at
his disposal. Severance payment in the event of termination by the employer amounts to one year’s salary. According to the terms and conditions of employment, the Acting President is entitled to a lifelong pension corresponding to the ITP plan.

Other senior executives are entitled to severance pay in the case of termination by the employer, this being a maximum of one year’s salary each. This group is entitled to company cars. There is a lifelong pension entitlement from age of 65, corresponding to the ITP plan. As in 2008, the group included one woman in 2009. The Group paid no separate fees to members of the Boards of subsidiaries and Group companies.

The separate Corporate Governance section in the Annual Report addresses matters regarding decisions on remuneration.