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Hi all,

I'm currently living in Belgium and working from home as a data scientist for a Dutch government agency (so I'm basically an ambtenaar). I have followed this sub for a while and I've seen wildly varying salaries, some much higher than mine, some a lot lower.

How would you guys rate my salary and do you think I would be able to get more if I would switch jobs and go and work in Belgium? Also taking into account all my current advantages that are not related to my salary such as working from home all the time and working only 4 days a week. I would be willing to go into the office 1 or maximum 2 days a week if the commute is not too long, but having a 4 day workweek is a must for me and not something I'm willing to give up.

1. PERSONALIA

  • Age: 30
  • Education: Masters Degree
  • Work experience : 4 years
  • Civil status: Cohabitation
  • Dependent people/children: None

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

  • Sector/Industry: Public Sector/Civil Service
  • Amount of employees: About 60.000
  • Multinational? No

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

  • Current job title: Data Scientist
  • One sentence job desription: Responsible for building ML models as well as deploying them into production. Some other project management responsibilities such as stakeholder management and sometimes taking the lead on certain projects.
  • Seniority: in my rank: 3yrs, total: 4yrs
  • Official hours/week : 36 Real hours/week (4 x 9, Fridays off)
  • Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 36
  • Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): Flexible (usually 07:30-17:00 Mo-Thu)
  • On-call duty: No
  • Vacation days/year: 26

4. SALARY

  • Gross salary/month: ~4400
  • Net salary/month: ~3000
  • Netto compensation: 0
  • Mobility budget/car/bike/...: No
  • 13th month (full? partial?): full
  • Meal vouchers: Not applicable in the Netherlands
  • Ecocheques: Not applicable in the Netherlands
  • Group insurance (% salary/% employer): No
  • Other insurances: I pay roughly 130 euros each month for health insurance in the Netherlands.
  • Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): None

5. MOBILITY

  • City/region of work: the Netherlands
  • Distance home-work (km's/time): 150km
  • How do you commute? Car
  • How is the travel home-work compensated: 0,28/km
  • Telework days/week: Every day, usually 1 or 2 office days per month

6. OTHER

  • How easy can you plan a day off: Easily, one or two days notice
  • Is your job stressful? None
  • Education possibilities: Not really
  • Responsible for personnel (reports): 0
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