1. PERSONALIA

• Age: 35
• Education: master in architecture
• Work experience : 11 years
• Civil status: wettelijk samenwonend
• Dependent children: *2 *

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

• Sector/Industry: architecture office
• Amount of employees: 22
• Multinational? No

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

• Current job title: project architect + team responsible
• Seniority: 6 years
• Official hours/week : 40 hours/week
• Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 50
• Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): 9 to 18 semi flexible monday - friday
• On-call duty: own responsibility
• Vacation days/year: *construction Hollidays (3 weeks juli + 2 weeks Christmas + all brugdagen *

4. SALARY

• Gross salary/month: 4750+12000 bonus/year
• Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): 2650
• Netto compensation: 0
• 13th month (full? partial?): Non - paid Hollidays
• Meal vouchers: 0 but lunch is paid by the office
• Ecocheques: No
• Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: No
• Group insurance (% employer): accident insurance (for construction sites but also applies private e.g. ski accident is insures
• Other insurances: no
• Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): bonus every year, included above r

5. MOBILITY

• City/region of work: Antwerp
• Distance home-work (km's/time): 2km 7 min
• How do you commute? Bike
• How is the travel home-work compensated: 0 euro / month
• Telework days/week: possible but not desirable

6. OTHER

• How easy can you plan a day off: easy, but in relation to work. So conclusion: quite impossible .
• Is your job stressful? A lot
• Education possibilities: if usefull.
• Responsible for personnel (reports): yes (6-8 People)

If I devide my paycheck to an hourly rate it's about 35-36eur/h (bruto self-employed) which is insanely low if you compare this with any other self-employed profile. On the other hand, I don't have to worry about having enough projects/work or acquisition, neither invest in the company's infrastructure or fixed costs.