Distribution of the distance to the redshift-dependent SFMS from (Boogaard et al. 2018, Eq. (1)) in dex of the four different surveys used for this study. We show the 1-σ variation around the mean μ (grey area) calculated from the fitted normal distribution (black line). We included all galaxies with a distance > 0 dex (dashed line), so all galaxies that lie above the main sequence. The number in the upper right corner of the diagram shows the number of galaxies above this threshold. In our final sample we include 406 galaxies in total.