The invention provides a paste composition for a solar cell electrode. According to the invention, the intrusion amount of electrode material can be easily controlled even when electrodes are formed in n layers of thin solar cells of a shallow emitter structure with a firing holing method and high-efficiency solar cells with high FF value and less current leakage can be obtained. An illuminated surface electrode is formed by thick film silver comprising, by weight, 1-10 parts of lead glass with respect to 100 parts of silver. The lead glass contains 6-62 mole% of PbO, 1-18 mole% of B2O3, 8-49 mole% of SiO2, 0-30 mole% of A12O3, 1-30 mole% of Li2O, 1-30 mole% of TiO2, 0-30 mole% of ZnO, 0-1.0 mole% of ZrO2 and 0-6 mole% of P2O5 and thus the intrusion quantity is controlled to be 80-90nm. Therefore, even the line width is reduced to be 100 microns, favorable ohmic contact can be obtained and photoelectric conversion efficiency of the solar cells can be improved.