I will start in a couple of weeks with this salary in Belgium, which are your thoguhts?

1. PERSONALIA

• Age: 24
• Education: Master, Industrial Engineering
• Work experience : 6 months relevant experience
• Civil status: unmarried
• Dependent people/children: 0

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

• Sector/Industry: Research
• Amount of employees: 5000ish
• Multinational? NO

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

• Current job title: Research Engineer
• Job description: Applied research in automation field
• Official hours/week : 38
• Average real hours/week incl. overtime: I guess around 38 hr/week
• Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): flexible 9 to 5
• On-call duty: NO
• Vacation days/year: 29 + 7

4. SALARY

• Gross salary/month: €4300 (around €4385 after indexation)
• Net salary/month: €2650 ish, (€2710 after indexation)
• Netto compensation: /
• Mobility budget/car/bike/...: Mobility budget - Bike 0.35€/km
• 13th month (full? partial?): Partial
• Meal vouchers: /
• Ecocheques: /
• Group insurance: /
• Other insurances: Hosp
• Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): /

5. MOBILITY

• City/region of work: Brussels
• Distance home-work: 1 km
• How do you commute? Walk/Bike/Bus (max 15 min in all the cases)
• How is the travel home-work compensated: not relevant for this distance
• Telework days/week: 2-3

6. OTHER

• How easily can you plan a day off: Flexible
• Is your job stressful? Not sure, but I imagine a 6 on a scale from 0 to 10
• Responsible for personnel (reports): No