Within the Swedish research project ”The Professional Landscape” we have new data on how seventeen professions evaluate the professional competence of a large number of professions, This paper will present data on the how Swedish professions evaluate the professional competence of each other (and some other occupations as well).The number of interviews is around 5.000.

 The paper will discuss how we can interpret the reciprocal evaluations – the level as well as the (a)symmetry - of the competence ascribed to different professions as a consequence of their cognitive basis (different or similar), which generation of professions they belong to, their cooperation/conflict within an occupational domain (e.g. physicians, nurses and biomedical scientists in the health care domain) and their social status.