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This article provides approximate net salaries at EU-OSHA, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, located in Bilbao, Spain.

EU-OSHA prepares, collects, analyses and disseminates information on occupational safety and health (OSH) issues, with the aim of improving OSH in workplaces across the EU. The agency was established in 1994.

Most EU institutions, including EU-OSHA, 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 EU-OSHA, 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 Spain, 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 EU-OSHA. 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 EU-OSHA. You are a Belgian national (any nationality except Spanish 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 EU-OSHA in Vigo, your net take-home remuneration package would be around EUR 6617. A Spanish national with a similar family situation would earn EUR 5576.

Contract Agent salaries at EU-OSHA

Func-tion group	Basic salary	Correct-ion Coef-ficient	01| Single local without children	02| Married local with 2 children	03| Single expat without children	04| Married expat with 2 children
FG I step 1	2128	95.2	1786	2830	2340	3384
FG II step 4	2211	95.2	1846	2892	2400	3446
FG III step 8	2831	95.2	2348	3405	2947	4005
FG IV step 13	3624	95.2	2945	4012	3662	4735

Administrator salaries at EU-OSHA

Function group	Basic salary	Correction Coefficient	01| Single local without children	02| Married local with 2 children	03| Single expat without children	04| Married expat with 2 children
AD 5	5011	95.2	3989	5087	4929	6027
AD 6	5669	95.2	4464	5576	5505	6617
AD 7	6414	95.2	4998	6124	6156	7282
AD 8	7258	95.2	5584	6727	6872	8015
AD 9	8211	95.2	6221	7381	7658	8817
AD 10	9291	95.2	6905	8085	8509	9689
AD 11	10512	95.2	7637	8841	9431	10635
AD 12	11893	95.2	8412	9642	10421	11651
AD 13	13457	95.2	9173	10434	11425	12685
AD 14	15225	95.2	9708	11014	12333	13639
AD 15	17227	95.2	10614	11959	13565	14910
AD 16	19491	95.2	11552	12942	14867	16258

Assistant salaries at EU-OSHA

Function group	Basic salary	Correction Coefficient	01| Single local without children	02| Married local with 2 children	03| Single expat without children	04| Married expat with 2 children
AST 1	3058	95.2	2554	3617	3190	4253
AST 2	3459	95.2	2836	3905	3534	4603
AST 3	3914	95.2	3183	4261	3952	5030
AST 4	4429	95.2	3561	4650	4410	5498
AST 5	5011	95.2	3989	5087	4929	6027
AST 6	5669	95.2	4464	5576	5505	6617
AST 7	6414	95.2	4998	6124	6156	7282
AST 8	7258	95.2	5584	6727	6872	8015
AST 9	8211	95.2	6221	7381	7658	8817
AST 10	9291	95.2	6905	8085	8509	9689
AST 11	10512	95.2	7637	8841	9431	10635

Secretaries and Clerks salaries at EU-OSHA

Function group	Basic salary	Correction Coefficient	01| Single local without children	02| Married local with 2 children	03| Single expat without children	04| Married expat with 2 children
AST/SC 1	2745	95.2	2277	3340	2877	3939
AST/SC 2	3106	95.2	2581	3643	3217	4279
AST/SC 3	3514	95.2	2830	3903	3554	4627
AST/SC 4	3976	95.2	3211	4290	3980	5059
AST/SC 5	4499	95.2	3614	4702	4462	5550
AST/SC 6	5090	95.2	4064	5163	5004	6102

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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