Salary as a kindergarten teacher
1. PERSONALIA
- Age: 33
- Education: BA kindergarden teacher
- Work experience : 12
Civil status: *legally cohabiting * (together for 13 years but dont wanna spend a obscene amount for a marriage party so we will just go sign a paper so we are 'married' xD)
Dependent people/children: 2
2. EMPLOYER PROFILE
- Sector/Industry: government: education
- Amount of employees: ~no idea
- Multinational? no
3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS
- Current job title: teacher with tenure(vastbenoemd)
- Official hours/week : 24
- Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 30-45 depends on the paperwork and materials needed for lessons and school activities. I usually do paperwork an hour each day and search for materials and gonto stores to buy materials on wednesday and weekends.
- Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): ** school hours
- On-call duty: no
- Vacation days/year: 0 + 14 weeks off school plus legal holidays
4. SALARY
- Gross salary/month: 3679
- Average net salary/month (incl. net fees): 2430 (started at 1400€ in 2010)
- Netto compensation: 0
- 13th month (full? partial?): Partial: 750 in december
- end schoolyear fee ( vakantiegeld): 1400 in may **
- Meal vouchers: No
- Ecocheques: No
- Salary car/bike and/or fuel card: Yes 21c/km bike.
- Group insurance (% employer): *no
- Other insurances: *no *
Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): 0 ** 5. MOBILITY
City/region of work: undisclosed ;p
Distance home-work (km's/time): *12km about 35min with my bike depens on the weather^ 25 minutes by car.
How do you commute? ** car (toddler to daycare and grandparents** when grandparents adds 45 minutes to drive.
How is the travel home-work compensated: 21c/km bike,car nothing
Telework days/week: ** just working on lessons on evenings and weekends
6. OTHER
- How easy can you plan a day off: **not possible unless 5 days emergency leave max or take days unpaid which is generally not done.
- Is your job stressful? at times yes
Education possibilities: ** expected to do at least 1 workshop each year
wife wages: almost exactly thesame. Also kinderg teacher with one year less worked. She has slightly more than me.
monthly costs:
house + ownership of land loan (1750 - we had stability troubles during build and were required to or place poles or a basement under the house which cost a fortune so we pay a lot more than planned. We had no choice it was that or stop construction and sit there with half a house. This resulted in 3 loans: 1 the land, 2 the house, 3 the basement
car loan (220)
daycare. (300 - 3days a week)
gas 2 cars (+/- 300)
insurance (47 - i pay more because i had cancer 5 years ago)
tv/internet (100(
gas/electricity (175)
car insurance (1100/year so 90 or so each month)
I probably forgot some stuff but you get the picture
Our house loan weighs quite heavily on everything especially cuz it wasn't supposed to be that much. The plan was max 1300 but life got in the way i guess. + at the time our house was built i was in the hospital for about 8 months fighting cancer so i couldn't follow up as much as i wanted to. This also cost us some amount of money even while having health insurance.
In my own opinion we have way too many costs alltogether but most of them are - unavoidable i'd say?
Since last year I took on a extra job during some weekends (flexijob) I try working at least 2 times a month on saturday to earn a bit more but sometimes i have too much work with lessons and stuff so i just don't have the time. I work on saturday as a dishwasher at a restaurant from 17.00pm to about 02.00am earning me +/-115 extra each time. Its nice but i dont know how much longer my bad back will keep allowing me to do this.
My salary isn't bad in my eyes but we've had some shit setbacks (bad luck with the house construction, cancer, hernia last year, car broke down few years ago,...) If i'd been alone i would maybe work more in school vacations but I wanna spend time with my kids and wife. It is what it is.
- feel free to comment btw just don't bash my life decisions too much if you can restrain yourself 🤪😆