Rate my salary - Communications Manager at non-profit trade association
I have about 4 years of xp. I've started this job 2 months ago and I am not at all happy. They hired me as Comms manager but I have the authority of an intern. They keep telling me "you are the manager you have the final say" but every call I make, every content I write gets micromanaged by people who don't have any comms related qualifications. I mean they "proofread" my texts and change things like "top priority" to "first priority" (useless correction) and sometimes even edit my correct sentence into incorrect ones like "shed light on something" was changed into "bring light on something" which is not the correct use in English. So it's pretty frustrating for me to endure this. I keep telling myself at least the pay isn't too bad (gross is much lower than my previous job where I had 3300eur but the after tax benefits makes this one higher) but I am not so sure if it's good enough to put up with it. I can work 4 days from home which is a plus but yeah...
- PERSONALIA
Age: 30
Education: BA Translation, two different MA Linguistics
Work experience : 4 years in Comms and 4 years in translation
Civil status: Legal cohab
Dependent people/children: 0
- EMPLOYER PROFILE
Sector/Industry: Mobility non-profit
Amount of employees: 3
Multinational? No
- CONTRACT & CONDITIONS
Current job title: Communications Manager
One sentence job description: In charge of creating, organising, carrying out all kinds of comms related tasks to promote the association and its policy work
Seniority: in my rank a few months, before that communications specialist or officer
Official hours/week : 38 hours/week
Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 40 on average
Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): 9 to 5
On-call duty: Rarely
Vacation days/year: 25
- SALARY
Gross salary/month: 2568
Net salary/month: 2400
Netto compensation: 350 (included above)
Mobility budget/car/bike/...: 50 eur transport budget (included above)
13th month (full? partial?): Full
Meal vouchers: 8 eur
Ecocheques: Yes 250/yr
Group insurance (% salary/% employer): there is group insurance but not sure about the percentage
Other insurances: Yes, hospitalisation for me
Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): Performance based bonus, max 5000 EUR gross
Phone subscription, Laptop
- MOBILITY
City/region of work: Brussels
Distance home-work (km's/time): 5 km. 35 mins
How do you commute? Bus
How is the travel home-work compensated: Nope
Telework days/week: 4 days telework & 1 day office
- OTHER
How easy can you plan a day off: easy-ish. They've always come up with an excuse why the date I want off is not a good day but upon insisting they agreed. It's stressful tho since I am the only one doing my tasks so basically I need to make sure everything is ready enough for a monkey to press the share button for when I am off.
Is your job stressful? Not the job content but dealing with people yes.
Education possibilities: Not really
Responsible for personnel (reports): none