1. PERSONALIA

• Age: 34
• Education: Bachelor’s degree (communication)
• Work experience: 12 years
• Civil status: Married
• Dependent people/children: 1

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

• Sector/Industry: The magical interwebs
• Amount of employees: ~2.000
• Multinational? Yes

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

• Current job title: Senior online marketeer
• Seniority: At this company: 3,5 yrs - in total: 12 yrs
• Official hours/week : 31,2 real hours/week - I work 80% aka 4/5
• Freelance: 60-80 hours/month
• Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 30-35, ~50 if I count my freelance time
• Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): Flexible, mostly office hours
• On-call duty: does not really apply for my inhouse job, as a freelancer: always.
• Vacation days/year: 27 in total, official + ADV. Keep in mind I work 4/5 so I only have to take 4 days off for an entire week off.

4. SALARY

• Gross salary/month: 4.050
• Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): 2.600
• Netto compensation: ~200
• 13th month (full? partial?): Full, but based on 4/5
• Meal vouchers: No
• Ecocheques: Yes - €250/yr
• Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: Yes - EV with charging card
• Group insurance (% employer): Yes - 3,7%
• Other insurances: Yes, hospitalisation including partner & child for a low price.
• Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): Some small bonuses, phone & subscription, laptop…

5. MOBILITY

• City/region of work: East-Flanders
• Distance home-work (km's/time): 30km / ~30 minutes
• How do you commute? Company car
• How is the travel home-work compensated: Company car
• Telework days/week: Fully flexible - mostly 2 days office/2 days at home

6. OTHER

• How easy can you plan a day off: Very easily, even last minute.
• Is your job stressful? From time to time 😉.
• Education possibilities: Some opportunities & external conferences
• Responsible for personnel (reports): No - expert role
• Working 4/5: I want to provide some more context and information as to why I’m working 4/5 because otherwise there will be a lot of questions about this topic 😀.**

I started freelancing almost 8 years ago, combining my freelance activities with a fulltime job. At certain times, I was working 60 hours/week easily - so switching to 4/5 made the most sense: combining certainty of income and advantages as an employee with doing my own thing for my own clients. With the kid coming into play, I now have some more family time and balance + flexibility. Which I obviously like.

On a yearly basis I invoice about €55K from my own company. The only big cost I have is my car (which my wife mainly uses) and I don’t pay myself a salary as the owner. I use dividends in order to “cash out”.