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I was inspired by another person posting their parliamentary assistant salary, and thought I'd add to the picture with a look at another EU institution and position. Using a throwaway.

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1. PERSONALIA

  • Age: 25
  • Education: Master's Degree
  • Work experience : 5 months interning and 6 months policy work at the Commission
  • Civil status: Single
  • Dependent people/children: None

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

  • Sector/Industry: Public Sector/Civil Service
  • Amount of employees: About 30 000
  • Multinational? Yes

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

  • Current job title: Policy Assistant
  • Seniority: less than a year
  • Official hours/week : 40 hours/week
  • Average real hours/week incl. overtime: closer to 50 depending the period
  • Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): 9 to 5
  • On-call duty: No, though sometimes late night emails/messages
  • Vacation days/year: 24 days/year + 2 travel days (to home country) + a few days can be built up from overtime)

4. SALARY

  • Gross salary/month: 3080.41
  • Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): 3327.49 (incl +633 expat allowance, - 390 or so in pension contributions/sickness and accident insurance/tax/unemployment benefits)
  • Netto compensation: (allowance of 16% for Non-BE citizens; or it could be 4% for foreigners who are in BE longer than 5 years; or 0% for BE citizens - complicated exemptions allowed)
  • 13th month (full? partial?): No
  • Meal vouchers: No
  • Ecocheques: No
  • Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: No
  • Group insurance (% employer): Yes, 80% on most procedures, 100% for serious illness
  • Other insurances: No
  • Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): installation allowances at the start of contract; once a year travel allowance depending on km to home country; 50% discount on public transport ticket around Brussels; there are relatively generous benefits for families and for kids depending on their age (but those don't apply to me)

5. MOBILITY

  • City/region of work: Brussels
  • Distance home-work (km's/time): 1km in 12min or so
  • How do you commute? On foot (bus when it rains)
  • How is the travel home-work compensated: No
  • Telework days/week: Max 3/week depending on the agenda (min 1 day/week guarantee)

6. OTHER

  • How easy can you plan a day off: Depends on period but usually simple enough month or more in advance, sometimes last minute holiday cancelation depending on agenda
  • Is your job stressful? Regularly
  • Education possibilities: Language courses + some internal software/procedure training
  • Responsible for personnel (reports): no
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