u/Dgima

What % of your salary do you usually save?

I'm getting a salary for the first time and I was wondering what the usual saving rate is. I feel like I could save a big portion of it since I have the mobility budget to pay for rent and meal voucher to pay for food.

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u/Dgima — 2 days ago

1. PERSONALIA

  • Age: 23
  • Education: Master
  • Work experience : 0
  • Civil status: Single
  • Dependent people/children: 0

2. EMPLOYER PROFILE

  • Sector/Industry: IT
  • Amount of employees: IDK
  • Multinational? YES

3. CONTRACT & CONDITIONS

  • Current job title: Junior consultant
  • Job description: Software dev essentially
  • Seniority: 0
  • Official hours/week : 37
  • Average real hours/week incl. overtime: 37
  • Shiftwork or 9 to 5 (flexible?): flexible
  • On-call duty: NO
  • Vacation days/year: 20 + 9

4. SALARY

  • Gross salary/month: 2900
  • Net salary/month: +-2350 (w netto)
  • Netto compensation: 150
  • Car/bike/... or mobility budget: +-720 used for rent
  • 13th month (full? partial?): 13.9
  • Meal vouchers: 8 EURO/DAY
  • Ecocheques: 250 EURO/YEAR
  • Group insurance: 4 %SALARY/%EMPLOYER
  • Other insurances: Hospital
  • Other benefits (bonuses, stocks options, ... ): Allowance for phone, chair, and some other stuff

5. MOBILITY

  • City/region of work: BXL
  • Distance home-work: 1. KILOMETERS/ 10Min
  • How do you commute? Foot
  • How is the travel home-work compensated: Not
  • Telework days/week: 3**-4**

6. OTHER

  • How easily can you plan a day off: easy
  • Is your job stressful? No
  • Responsible for personnel (reports): no

Starting my first job soon, feel like it's average gross but well optimized package. Would like to have some opinion on it.

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u/Dgima — 8 days ago