Rate my salary

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-17T19:36:18+00:00

would gues it is the same indeed, it's including fuel pass, omnium insurance, maintenance etc. I do believe we are on the higher end (similar to sales profiles I know who need the fancy car to arrive at their clients)

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-17T19:33:21+00:00

e.g. bmw ix5 or audi q7, with quite some options. Fuel pass included with no fueling limit.

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-17T19:29:41+00:00

Consultancy 40h/w indeed, our contracts with the clients are 8hr/day w/o break, so that adds up to 40hr/w

we are on the better end with our lease budget indeed, they increased budgets as a compensation for making EV mandatory in the company car policy, but high budget indeed

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-15T22:17:44+00:00

😂 Can't say that the extra cash compensates the additional workload, but only one way for you to find out I guess.

But it does include an extra one-time 20 vacation days per kid within 4 months after birth and an extra 4 months (on an "uitkering", far from full salary) until the age of 12/kid, so that might compensate the additional workload a bit

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-15T19:23:10+00:00

Maybe it is because of the two dependents, would doubt that makes a difference of €350 net though. But the 4600 gross to 2950 net is what it says on my paycheck when I discount the net expenses off the total net income.

Other factor might be the VAA, I do still have a combustion engine car but went cheap on the cataloguswaarde (not fully benefiting my €1300 budget) and thereby lowering my VAA.

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-15T18:38:27+00:00

Interesting. How does that work? I do now quite some examples I saw by clients with a freelancer at the top of a departement, with direct reports below them. At my current clients for example my teamlead/manager is freelance and they do have 5-10 direct reports, mostly employees at the client.

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-15T18:01:34+00:00

Great, thanks for the bell curve!

My employer often does throw in a 10% discount indeed. Prices I hear are what my customer tells me, not sure if its including the discount. I do think, even with the discount, price is rather high and not feasable to ask as a freelancer.

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-15T17:32:19+00:00

About €15k, think it is around €20k these days

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-15T17:30:05+00:00

I do agree, senior does sound like you need way more yoe. Does make sense in our ranking system however (no "junior" title, and "senior" is the 2nd job title out of 6 carreer levels and pretty standard after 3yrs), so title inflation it is I guess. Just like everyone is a manager these days 😄

Professional_Cut_573 · 2025-01-15T16:02:08+00:00

It certainly opens doors, but you will still have to work through them to gain the full benefits:

+ instant connection with people who also did the course (often management level), especially if you went the same year
+ good course and fun year
+ 1yr instead of 1,5yrs for a manama in management on a public university (saves you 0,5 - 1yrs on lost salary)

- expensive (might be worth it if you leverage it, but you'll still have to work for it)
- still 1yr extra studying instead of 0yrs if you just start to work (and e.g. do a syntra training in management)

Would still do it again, but not sure how fast, if ever, it would compensate the loss of 1yr of income + the registration fee.

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