Hello everyone. I received a counter-offer from a position that I applied recently, and I would like to know your honest opinion on this. Fair to say, that I'm not a senior (given the years of experience), but I'm very technical.
To be completely honest, I was a bit disappointed on the low net allowances they offered, that's why I tried to counter offer them initially. Then I realized that mobility budget exists, and because I need to commute to the office twice a week, I likely need to take a car, which lowers my net. Meanwhile, I can always split the mobility budget, by trying to put some of the value into the pillar 2, which raises my monthly net a bit. Fair to say that my current position pays lower, but in contrast is quite tax-beneficial. Anyway, give me your opinion on this, especially from people around this field.
1. PERSONALIA
- Age: 29
- Education: Software Engineer (Bachelor)
- Work experience : 3.5 (almost 4 years)
- Civil status: Single
- Dependent people/children: 0
2. EMPLOYER PROFILE
- Sector/Industry: Pharma
- Amount of employees: not sure
- Multinational? Yes
3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS
- Current job title: Senior Test Automation Engineer
- Job description: working around infrastructure and scripts development within automation testing frameworks
- Seniority: 4
- Official hours/week : 40
- Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 40
- Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): Flexible
- Vacation days/year: Unlimited (at least that's what they say)
4. SALARY
- Gross salary/month: around 4956€
- Net salary/month: 3032€ (there are although the copyright law, that is likely to have an effect here, pushing this to 3150€, if I'm doing the right calculation)
- Netto compensation: 20€ (quite low, if you ask me, however can't be increase given the company policy, because trust me, I did try)
- Car/bike/... or mobility budget: 1100€ mobility budget
- 13th month (full? partial?): full
- Meal vouchers: 8/DAY
- Ecocheques: 250/YEAR
- Group insurance: Yes
- Other insurances: Hospital insurance
- Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): There are some final year bonus, not sure how much
5. MOBILITY
- City/region of work: Wallonia
- Distance home-work: 30km
- How do you commute? Not sure yet, likely to be by car
- How is the travel home-work compensated: Not
- Telework days/week: 2 day/week