I work as a project consultant at a client of ours where they are very satisfied with my work. They offered me a job which in my feeling is kind of a low blow. I’ll put my current salary below and then mention the changes they offer me.

1. PERSONALIA

Age: 25

Education: Professional Bachelor

Work experience : 1 year

Civil status: single

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

Sector/Industry: Consultancy —> Petroleum

Amount of employees: few hundred

Multinational? yes

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

job title: Project Consultant —> Scheduler

Seniority: 1

Official hours/week : 38 hours/week + ADV

Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): flexible; I work mostly 9:30 - 18:00

On-call duty: No

Vacation days/year: 20 + 12 ADV + holidays. —> 20 + 12 ADV + 13 Petroleum days

4. SALARY

Gross salary/month: 2450 EUR —> 3400 EUR

Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): 1.800 - 1.900 EUR —> 2.100-ish EUR

Netto compensation:/

13th month (full? partial?): Full

Meal vouchers: 8 EURO/worked day, but it's included in my salary

Ecocheques: 250 EUR

Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: Volkswagen Golf Variant incl. unlimited fuel card, but card only useable in Belgium (pay 100 euro net because upgrade in fleet) —> Possibility to lease e-bike

Group insurance (% employer): *Yes *

Other insurances: Yes, hospitalisation

City/region of work: Antwerp

Distance home-work (km's/time): 50km

How do you commute? car

How is the travel home-work compensated: none —> km compensation (don’t know how much

Telework days/week: n/a

6. OTHER

How easy can you plan a day off: pretty easy, just watch out to not overlap with too many colleagues at the same time

Is your job stressful? Sometimes

Education possibilities: 4 days you can choose from an wide range of trainings —> not sure but seems less than now

Responsible for personnel (reports): No —> when manager is on vacation or sick, most of the time I am the backup

My feeling is that I will lose because I drive quite a bit of kilometres per month. And this is basically the difference in wage just for refuelling. Am I the idiot for turning down that offer?