From what I have seen here, I am definitely on the lower end of the salary scale (and it's demotivating). I was too stupid to think 2.2k with IP was good a deal and I didn't negotiate. On the other hand, I've become much more mature, I now know how to negotiate (read the book from Chriss Voss) and know what I am worth.
I will lose IP, and they will start introducing other benefits like cars, they are not able to compensate everyone in gross. Which might result in a car with an even lower gross.
The people are nice and I do have some okay-ish opportunities but the only way to make money is to hop. I want to work with a different language like Java which I don't have any working experience with, so a bit harder to land a job let's say.
What should I be able to get when I hop? Would 2.3k - 2.4k net + car be possible? I will start looking at Brussels too.
1. PERSONALIA
- Age: 23
- Education: Bachelor of Design, Development & Research
- Work experience : 2 years
- Civil status: Living with GF
- Dependent people/children: None
2. EMPLOYER PROFILE
- Sector/Industry: Digital products
- Amount of employees: About 200
- Multinational? Yes
3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS
- Current job title: Software Engineer
- Seniority: 1.5 years
- Official hours/week : 39 Real hours/week
- Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 39
- Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): 9 to 5
- On-call duty: No
- Vacation days/year: The standard
4. SALARY
- Gross salary/month: 2660 + IP
- Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): ~2180
- Netto compensation: 0
- 13th month (full? partial?): Full
- Meal vouchers: 8 EURO/day
- Ecocheques: Yes 250/year
- Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: No
- Group insurance (% employer): Yes
- Other insurances: Yes, hospitalisation including children for a really low price.
- Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): Bonus around 500 eur, iPhone, phone subscription, internet, nmbs subscription
5. MOBILITY
- City/region of work: Ghent
- Distance home-work (km's/time): 1 hour with car
- How do you commute? Train
- How is the travel home-work compensated: NMBS subscription
- Telework days/week: Every day allowed (is what I do)
6. OTHER
- How easy can you plan a day off: Easily if it’s planned 2 weeks in advance
- Is your job stressful? None
- Education possibilities: +1K budget for conferences/courses
- Responsible for personnel (reports): yes