Rate my salary - junior associate/lawyer (starting 3 year intern) - construction law, real estate
1. PERSONALIA
- Age: 24
- Education: masters of law
- Work experience : 0
- Civil status: singe/unmarried
- Dependent people/children: 0
2. EMPLOYER PROFILE
- Sector/Industry: Private lawfirm
- Amount of employees: Around 45
- Multinational? No
3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS
- Current job title: Junior associate
- Seniority: 0
- Official hours/week : 40/week
- Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 45/week
- Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): flexible 9-18:30
- On-call duty: Monday to Friday
- Vacation days/year: 20 days
4. SALARY
- Gross salary/month: 3400
- Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): probably around €1800 (eenmanszaak so unsure)
- Meal vouchers: no
- Ecocheques: no
- Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: no
- Group insurance (% employer): Yes
- Other insurances:
- Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): yearly bonus based on performance, laptop
5. MOBILITY
- City/region of work: Antwerp city
- Distance home-work (km's/time): 4 km /15 mins
- How do you commute? Car or bike
- Telework days/week: 1
6. OTHER
- How easy can you plan a day off: very easily
- Is your job stressful? Yes
- Education possibilities: yes, a lot
- Responsible for personnel (reports): no
I feel like it's such a taboo to talk about your compensation in this field when you're just getting started. I've seen people brag about getting +5k brut to people complaining they only have 1,3k net at the end of the month.