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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.

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