diff --git a/tests/test_convert_salary_excel.py b/tests/test_convert_salary_excel.py
index 5b6a858..1b954c2 100644
--- a/tests/test_convert_salary_excel.py
+++ b/tests/test_convert_salary_excel.py
@@ -189,6 +189,46 @@ class DetectColumnTypeTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertIn("salary_index", companies[0]["categories"])
         self.assertEqual(companies[0]["categories"]["salary_index"], {"index": 105.5})
 
+    def test_parse_sheet_accepts_comma_decimal_string_values(self):
+        # Locale-formatted Excel exports can carry numeric cells as strings.
+        # Danish decimal commas must not be silently dropped by float().
+        ws = FakeWorksheet([
+            ("Company", "Engineering Count", "Engineering Index"),
+            ("Example Corp", "12,0", "108,5"),
+        ])
+
+        companies = parse_sheet(ws)
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            companies[0]["categories"]["engineering"],
+            {"count": 12, "index": 108.5},
+        )
+
+    def test_parse_sheet_accepts_danish_thousands_and_decimal_string(self):
+        ws = FakeWorksheet([
+            ("Company", "Salary Index"),
+            ("Example Corp", "1.234,5"),
+        ])
+
+        companies = parse_sheet(ws)
+
+        self.assertEqual(
+            companies[0]["categories"]["salary_index"],
+            {"index": 1234.5},
+        )
+
+    def test_parse_sheet_skips_ambiguous_single_comma_thousands_string(self):
+        # In an English-locale export, "1,234" is probably 1234, but in a
+        # decimal-comma locale it could be 1.234. Preserve the old safe-skip
+        # behavior instead of guessing and writing a 1000x-wrong salary value.
+        ws = FakeWorksheet([
+            ("Company", "Salary Index"),
+            ("Example Corp", "1,234"),
+        ])
+
+        companies = parse_sheet(ws)
+
+        self.assertEqual(companies[0]["categories"], {})
 
     def test_parse_sheet_pairs_interleaved_count_index_columns_by_name(self):
         ws = FakeWorksheet([
diff --git a/tools/convert_salary_excel.py b/tools/convert_salary_excel.py
index be190ca..f334ef4 100644
--- a/tools/convert_salary_excel.py
+++ b/tools/convert_salary_excel.py
@@ -54,6 +54,25 @@ COMPOUND_PATTERNS = {"antal", "indeks", "løn", "gennemsnit", "medarbejdere"}
 ID_PATTERNS = {"id", "personnummer"}
 
 
+def parse_numeric_cell(value):
+    """Parse numeric Excel values, including localized string cells."""
+    if isinstance(value, (int, float)):
+        return float(value)
+    if not isinstance(value, str):
+        raise ValueError("not numeric")
+
+    text = value.strip().replace("\u00a0", " ").replace(" ", "")
+    if not text:
+        raise ValueError("not numeric")
+    if "," in text and "." in text:
+        text = text.replace(".", "").replace(",", ".")
+    elif "," in text:
+        if re.fullmatch(r"[+-]?\d+,\d{3}", text):
+            raise ValueError("ambiguous comma separator")
+        text = text.replace(",", ".")
+    return float(text)
+
+
 def header_matches(header, patterns):
     """Return True when a header contains a meaningful pattern match.
 
@@ -211,12 +230,12 @@ def parse_sheet(ws, sheet_label=None):
                 index_val = None
                 if cat["count_col"] < len(row) and row[cat["count_col"]] is not None:
                     try:
-                        count_val = int(row[cat["count_col"]])
+                        count_val = int(parse_numeric_cell(row[cat["count_col"]]))
                     except (ValueError, TypeError):
                         pass
                 if cat["index_col"] < len(row) and row[cat["index_col"]] is not None:
                     try:
-                        index_val = float(row[cat["index_col"]])
+                        index_val = parse_numeric_cell(row[cat["index_col"]])
                     except (ValueError, TypeError):
                         pass
                 # A count/index pair that is entirely empty for this row carries
@@ -228,7 +247,7 @@ def parse_sheet(ws, sheet_label=None):
                 if cat["value_col"] < len(row) and row[cat["value_col"]] is not None:
                     val = row[cat["value_col"]]
                     try:
-                        val = float(val)
+                        val = parse_numeric_cell(val)
                     except (ValueError, TypeError):
                         # Non-numeric standalone value (e.g. a free-text "Notes"
                         # column) is not salary data; skip it for this row.