For several decades each Jonas Eriksson professional football referee in everything from the Allsvenskan and Superettan to the Champions League and world championships.
In 2018, Eriksson ended his refereeing career.
– Now I will be at home with the family and play football with the girls. I have had 100+ travel days every year and there have been a lot of weekends. It will be nice not to be so damn locked up, he said then, according to SVT.
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In addition to football, Jonas Eriksson has made himself known as a diligent entrepreneur and for that very reason he got a place this year in the SVT program “Draknästet”.
In an interview with Café has the former judge talked about what it takes for him to invest in someone’s company.
– You must come in with passion, security, self-confidence and be a visionary. But you shouldn’t be cocky and rude. There are those who come in thinking they have the world’s best product and when you press it and it’s not. In addition, you must be a nice person. If I’m going to invest in something you’re pitching, I’ll hang out with you a lot and then it’s important that I like the person.
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Jonas Eriksson is CEO of a million-dollar company
But how are things going for Jonas Eriksson’s own companies? The former soccer referee is CEO of the company WE Sigtuna AB which conducts training activities. In June 2023, a turnover of SEK 21.4 million was reported here. However, they had a loss of SEK 832,000.
The company’s assets amounted to just over nine million kroner.
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Jonas Eriksson. Photo: Adam Ihse/TT
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Eriksson is also CEO of EToM AB, who engage in, among other things, media activities and consulting in sports and PR. Here they reported, in December 2022, a turnover and profit of SEK 5.5 and SEK 3.7 million, respectively.
At the time, the assets were estimated to amount to SEK 61.7 million.
Jonas Eriksson’s salary – that’s how much he earns
So what does Jonas Eriksson’s salary end up at? Some figures for 2023 have not yet been received by the Swedish Tax Agency, but according to documents from Tax Agency as News24 took note of, the entrepreneur had a determined earned income that landed at SEK 903,600 in 2022.
In the same year, Eriksson had a surplus of capital of SEK 400,007.
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