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This article provides estimated net salaries at EPPO, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, located in Luxembourg.

European Public Prosecutor’s Office is an agency of the European Union that is responsible for investigating, prosecuting and bringing to judgment crimes against the financial interests of the EU. These include several types of fraud, VAT fraud with damages above 10 million euro, money laundering, corruption and others. In implementing its functions, EPPO not only closely cooperates with the competent Member States authorities, but also works with Eurojust, OLAF and Europol. EPPO started its operations in 2021.

Most EU institutions, including EPPO, do a notoriously poor job in communicating their salaries. Very often EU agencies and other EU institutions just indicate the gross basic pay without deductions and allowances, and quite many do not adjust it by the Correction Coefficient which can have a significant impact on an employee’s net take-home pay.

This makes it very hard for people without experience in the EU system to understand one’s actual future income, and is a hindrance for quite many people already employed in EU institutions that consider a career change.

This article series will seek to address the lack of information on actual net salaries in EU agencies and other institutions.

As usual for this type of information, bear in mind 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 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 EPPO, 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 relevant European Commission’s Correction Coefficient, so they present a realistic approximation of take-home pay/full remuneration package calculation.

The information below gives you a realistic estimate of what you can expect to earn at EPPO. 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 EPPO. You are an Italian national (any nationality except Luxembourgish 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 EPPO in Luxembourg, your net take-home remuneration package would be around EUR 6951. A Luxembourg national with a similar family situation would earn EUR 5857.

Contract Agent salaries at EPPO

FUNC-TION GROUP	BASIC SALARY	COR-RECTION COEF-FICIENT	01| Single local with no children	02| Married local with 2 children	03| Single expat with no children	04| Married expat with 2 children
FG I step 1	2128	100	1876	2973	2458	3555
FG II step 4	2211	100	1939	3038	2521	3620
FG III step 8	2831	100	2466	3577	3096	4207
FG IV step 13	3624	100	3094	4214	3847	4974

Administrator salaries at EPPO

FUNC-TION GROUP	BASIC SALARY	COR-RECTION COEF-FICIENT	01| Single local with no children	02| Married local with 2 children	03| Single expat with no children	04| Married expat with 2 children
AD 5	5011	100	4190	5344	5177	6331
AD 6	5669	100	4689	5857	5783	6951
AD 7	6414	100	5250	6433	6466	7649
AD 8	7258	100	5866	7066	7219	8419
AD 9	8211	100	6535	7753	8044	9262
AD 10	9291	100	7253	8493	8938	10178
AD 11	10512	100	8022	9287	9906	11171
AD 12	11893	100	8836	10128	10946	12238
AD 13	13457	100	9636	10960	12001	13325
AD 14	15225	100	10197	11569	12955	14327
AD 15	17227	100	11149	12562	14249	15662
AD 16	19491	100	12134	13595	15617	17078

Assistant salaries at EPPO

FUNC-TION GROUP	BASIC SALARY	COR-RECTION COEF-FICIENT	01| Single local with no children	02| Married local with 2 children	03| Single expat with no children	04| Married expat with 2 children
AST 1	3058	100	2683	3799	3351	4467
AST 2	3459	100	2979	4102	3712	4835
AST 3	3914	100	3343	4476	4151	5284
AST 4	4429	100	3741	4884	4632	5775
AST 5	5011	100	4190	5344	5177	6331
AST 6	5669	100	4689	5857	5783	6951
AST 7	6414	100	5250	6433	6466	7649
AST 8	7258	100	5866	7066	7219	8419
AST 9	8211	100	6535	7753	8044	9262
AST 10	9291	100	7253	8493	8938	10178
AST 11	10512	100	8022	9287	9906	11171

Secretaries and Clerks salaries at EPPO

FUNC-TION GROUP	BASIC SALARY	COR-RECTION COEF-FICIENT	01| Single local with no children	02| Married local with 2 children	03| Single expat with no children	04| Married expat with 2 children
AST/SC 1	2745	100	2392	3508	3022	4138
AST/SC 2	3106	100	2711	3827	3379	4495
AST/SC 3	3514	100	2973	4100	3733	4860
AST/SC 4	3976	100	3373	4506	4181	5314
AST/SC 5	4499	100	3796	4939	4687	5830
AST/SC 6	5090	100	4269	5423	5256	6410

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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