Abstract The spectrum of palladium was observed in the wavelength region 450–850 A by means of a 6.650 m normal incidence vacuum spectrograph. In this wavelength region 718 lines belonging to the 4d7–4d65p transition array have been identified. The experimentally determined energy values of all levels in the 4d7 (19 levels) and 4d65p (180 levels) configurations are presented together with their eigenvector composition, derived from parametric least-squares fitted (LSF) calculations. The parameter values are compared with Hartree-Fock (HF) predictions.