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This article provides approximate net salaries at EIOPA, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, located in Frankfurt, Germany.

The EIOPA is a European Union institution that protects the public interest in relation to European Union’s insurance and occupational pensions sectors. It keeps an eye on the interests of pension scheme members, policy holders and similar beneficiaries. Through its mandate EIOPA also contributes to the short, medium and long-term stability and effectiveness of the EU financial system.

Most EU institutions, including EIOPA, do a notoriously poor job in communicating their salary scales as they often indicate just the basic pay and little other detail, and quite many even fail to adjust it by the Correction Coefficient. This is not helpful for people without experience in the EU system, and a hindrance for quite many staff members that consider changing their positions as this makes it really difficult to understanding a person’s future income. This article series will seek to address the lack of information on actual net salaries in EU institutions.

The salaries below are presented according to four typical personal/family situations of future employees:

• by type of contract (Contract Agent, Administrator, Assistant, Secretary and Clerk) and
• function group (FGI-FGIV, AD5-AD16, AST1-AST11, AST/SC1-AST/SC6).

The mentioned personal/family situations are:

Situation 01	Situation 02	Situation 03	Situation 04
Single local with no children	Married local with two children	Single expat with no children	Married expat with two children

To get an idea of your actual salary at EIOPA, you should look at the right cell in one of the four columns in the tables below that best corresponds to your personal/family situation. In calculating these values we have summed up not only the basic salary, but also the applicable allowances and deductions: household allowance, child allowances, expatriation allowance, pension contribution, sickness, accident and unemployment insurance, as well as community tax. All values in the last four columns are also adjusted by the European Commission’s Correction Coefficient for Frankfurt in Germany, so they present a realistic approximation of take-home pay/full remuneration package calculation.

As usual in these types of articles, I have to add the caveat that your precise salary can be calculated only by the EU institution’s HR department that knows your particular professional and personal circumstances.

The information below gives you a realistic estimate of what you can expect to earn at EIOPA. People interested in working for EU institutions often only look up the basic pay for their type of contract and grade. This is a mistake as the actual net salary can differ up or down quite a bit, compared to the basic salary.

If you want to understand what elements constitute the full salary package in the EU institutions and their weight in the total remuneration calculation, please read the article applicable to your type of contract: Contract Agents, Administrators, Assistants, Secretaries and Clerks.

How to read the tables

Here’s an explanation of how to read the tables below.

Let’s assume that you have applied for an AD6 Administrator’s vacancy in EIOPA. You are a Belgian national (any nationality except German fits here) with a spouse and two children. From the table below you can deduct that your basic salary without any adjustments would be EUR 5669, however, by working for EIOPA in Frankfurt, Germany, your net take-home remuneration package would be around EUR 6736. A German colleague with a similar family situation would earn EUR 5675.

Contract Agent salaries at EIOPA

Function group	Basic salary for function group	Correction Coefficient	Single local with no children	Married local with 2 children	Single expat with no children	Married expat with 2 children
FG I step 1	2128	96.9	1818	2881	2382	3445
FG II step 4	2211	96.9	1879	2944	2443	3508
FG III step 8	2831	96.9	2390	3466	3000	4077
FG IV step 13	3624	96.9	2998	4083	3728	4820

Administrator salaries at EIOPA

Function group	Basic salary	Correction Coefficient	Single local with no children	Married local with two children	Single expat with no children	Married expat with two children
AD 5 step 1	5011	96.9	4060	5178	5017	6135
AD 6	5669	96.9	4544	5675	5604	6736
AD 7	6414	96.9	5087	6234	6266	7412
AD 8	7258	96.9	5684	6847	6995	8158
AD 9	8211	96.9	6332	7513	7795	8975
AD 10	9291	96.9	7028	8230	8661	9862
AD 11	10512	96.9	7773	8999	9599	10825
AD 12	11893	96.9	8562	9814	10607	11859
AD 13	13457	96.9	9337	10620	11629	12912
AD 14	15225	96.9	9881	11210	12553	13883
AD 15	17227	96.9	10803	12173	13807	15176
AD 16	19491	96.9	11758	13174	15133	16549

Assistant salaries at EIOPA

Function group	Basic salary	Correction Coefficient	Single local with no children	Married local with two children	Single expat with no children	Married expat with two children
AST 1	3058	96.9	2600	3681	3247	4329
AST 2	3459	96.9	2887	3975	3597	4685
AST 3	3914	96.9	3239	4337	4022	5120
AST 4	4429	96.9	3625	4733	4488	5596
AST 5	5011	96.9	4060	5178	5017	6135
AST 6	5669	96.9	4544	5675	5604	6736
AST 7	6414	96.9	5087	6234	6266	7412
AST 8	7258	96.9	5684	6847	6995	8158
AST 9	8211	96.9	6332	7513	7795	8975
AST 10	9291	96.9	7028	8230	8661	9862
AST 11	10512	96.9	7773	8999	9599	10825

Secretaries and Clerks salaries at EIOPA

Function group	Basic salary	Correction Coefficient	Single local with no children	Married local with two children	Single expat with no children	Married expat with two children
AST/SC 1	2745	96.9	2318	3399	2928	4010
AST/SC 2	3106	96.9	2627	3708	3274	4356
AST/SC 3	3514	96.9	2881	3973	3617	4709
AST/SC 4	3976	96.9	3268	4366	4051	5149
AST/SC 5	4499	96.9	3678	4786	4542	5649
AST/SC 6	5090	96.9	4137	5255	5093	6211

Allowances and other benefits for EU institutions staff

Several allowances and other benefits can quite significantly boost an EU official’s income. This largely depends on whether the person is an expat and has a spouse and/or children. When considering a job at an EU institution, people too often do not take these benefits into account. Important – these benefits are available to Administrators in grades AD 5-16, Assistants in grades AST 1-11, Secretaries and Clerks in grades AST/SC 1-6, and Contract Agents in grades FG I-IV.

• Travel costs on taking up duties
• Daily subsistence allowance (during probation period)
• Installation allowance and coverage of removal costs (one-time payments)
• Expatriation allowance or Foreign Residence allowance
• Household allowance
• Dependent child allowance
• European School enrollment for children or Education allowance if there is no local EU school
• Healthcare costs reimbursement to a level of 80-85% through the EU’s Joint Sickness Insurance Scheme (JSIS) for the employee and any direct family members and dependents. 100% reimbursement of costs in case of a serious illness
• Accident insurance
• Annual travel compensation
• Birth grant
• Parental leave
• Unemployment allowance
• Removal expenses when leaving your home country and again when leaving your EU institution
• EU pension, survivors and orphan’s pensions, invalidity allowance
• Lump sum payments in case of permanent invalidity or death
• Lump sum funeral expenses, up to EUR 2350

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