The purpose of the study was to investigate whether there is a relationship between the variables empathy and altruism, and if there is a difference between gender. The study also investigated whether there were gender differences between women and men and the degree of empathy and altruism. To collect data, a questionnaire survey was conducted in which empathy was measured by a translated version of The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ) and altruism was measured by a modified version of The Self-Report altruism scale (SRA-scale). The total number of participants was 107 who were recruited via Facebook. Data were analyzed with Pearson´s correlation and t-test. The result showed that there was a weak significant correlation between empathy and altruism and that women had higher self-rated empathy then men. However, there was no difference between women and men and altruism. The conclusion was that empathy and altruism co-vary with each other, but that the correlation was weak. There was a significant difference between women and men for empathy but not for altruism. The survey has not contributed new findings, but the results support previous research.