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Rate My Salary |Air Traffic Safety Technician

The term Air Traffic Safety Electronic Personnel (ATSEP) describes those technical specialists working to provide and support the electronics and software which enable air traffic service (ATS) systems to function.

ATSEP comprise engineers, technicians, and computer hardware and software specialists who are responsible for the specification, procurement, installation, calibration, maintenance, testing and certification of ground electronic systems used to help control aircraft movements.

1. PERSONALIA

  • Age: 29
  • Education: Professional Bachelor
  • Work experience : 5.5 years
  • Civil status: Single
  • Dependent people/children: 0

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

  • Sector/Industry: Public Sector | Air traffic control
  • Amount of employees: About 800
  • Multinational? No

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

  • Current job title: Air Traffic Safety Electronic Personnel (ATSEP)
  • One sentence job description (current): Responsible, along with the team, to maintain & repair equipment used by air traffic control
  • Seniority: 5yrs
  • Official hours/week: 38 Real hours/week
  • Average real hours/week overtime: 40 -> 1 day compensated per month of 8-4
  • Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?):
    • Regular; 8 to 4 between shifts
    • Shiftwork ~ 5 times a year ; One week(-end) of each shift & recovery days in between
      • During weekdays: AM,PM, Night - 8 Hours shifts
      • During weekends & Public holidays: 12 Hours shifts
  • On-call duty: 2 weeks straight ~ five times per year
  • Vacation days/year:
    • 26 Vacation days + Public sector holidays
    • 43 "recovery & compensated" days
    • Night shifts .. which are kinda vacation days after the night

4. SALARY

  • Gross salary/month: 3700€ - 82k/year including all bonuses
  • Net salary/month: 2410€ - 49k a year including all bonuses ~ 4k/month
  • Netto compensation: None
  • Mobility budget/car/bike/...: None
  • 13th month (full? partial?): Full
  • Meal vouchers: 8 EURO
  • Ecocheques: 250
  • Group insurance (% salary/% employer): Yes, but don't know the percentage.
  • Other insurances: Yes, hospitalisation including childrens & spouse for a really low price.
  • Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ):
    • How is the travel home-work compensated: Apart from the legal none; y days bonus 150 gross € /day ,..

5. MOBILITY

  • City/region of work: Belgium
  • Distance home-work (km's/time): ~20 minutes
  • How do you commute? Car
  • How is the travel home-work compensated: Apart from the legal none ; Bicycle compensation of 0,24/km
  • Telework days/week: N/A

6. OTHER

  • How easy can you plan a day off: Easily, even the day before as long we're with a minimum staff
  • Is your job stressful? No 90% of the time , Yes 10% of the time - Nothing in between
  • Education possibilities: Systems trainings every 5 years - but no place for career growth aka "golden cage"
  • Responsible for personnel (reports): 0

As you can see - Bonuses due to shifts are a huge part of the salary - But .. they get taxed a lot - And don't count for pension allowance... and are - by design - never permanent in the long term.

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