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This article provides estimated net salaries at EUSPA, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme, located in Prague, Czech Republic.

EUSPA is an EU institution that manages the European Union Space Programme. It was founded under the current name on 12 May 2021, however, it inherits the work of its predecessors: the European GNSS Supervisory Authority and the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency. It should not be confused with the European Space Agency.

Most EU institutions, including EUSPA, 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 EUSPA, 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 the Czech Republic, 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 EUSPA. 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 EUSPA. You are a Belgian national (any nationality except Czech 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 EUSPA in Prague, your net take-home remuneration package would be around EUR 6117. A Czech national with a similar family situation would earn EUR 5154.

Contract Agent salaries at EUSPA

FUNCTION GROUP	BASIC SALARY	CORRECTION COEFFICIENT	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	88	1651	2616	2163	3128
FG II step 4	2211	88	1706	2673	2218	3186
FG III step 8	2831	88	2170	3148	2724	3702
FG IV step 13	3624	88	2723	3708	3385	4377

Administrator salaries at EUSPA

FUNCTION GROUP	BASIC SALARY	CORRECTION COEFFICIENT	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	88	3687	4703	4556	5571
AD 6	5669	88	4126	5154	5089	6117
AD 7	6414	88	4620	5661	5690	6731
AD 8	7258	88	5162	6218	6353	7409
AD 9	8211	88	5751	6823	7079	8151
AD 10	9291	88	6383	7474	7865	8957
AD 11	10512	88	7059	8173	8717	9830
AD 12	11893	88	7776	8913	9632	10769
AD 13	13457	88	8480	9645	10561	11726
AD 14	15225	88	8973	10181	11400	12608
AD 15	17227	88	9811	11055	12539	13783
AD 16	19491	88	10678	11964	13743	15029

Assistant salaries at EUSPA

FUNCTION GROUP	BASIC SALARY	CORRECTION COEFFICIENT	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	88	2361	3343	2949	3931
AST 2	3459	88	2622	3610	3267	4255
AST 3	3914	88	2942	3939	3653	4650
AST 4	4429	88	3292	4298	4076	5082
AST 5	5011	88	3687	4703	4556	5571
AST 6	5669	88	4126	5154	5089	6117
AST 7	6414	88	4620	5661	5690	6731
AST 8	7258	88	5162	6218	6353	7409
AST 9	8211	88	5751	6823	7079	8151
AST 10	9291	88	6383	7474	7865	8957
AST 11	10512	88	7059	8173	8717	9830

Secretaries and Clerks salaries at EUSPA

FUNCTION GROUP	BASIC SALARY	CORRECTION COEFFICIENT	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	88	2105	3087	2659	3641
AST/SC 2	3106	88	2386	3368	2974	3956
AST/SC 3	3514	88	2616	3608	3285	4277
AST/SC 4	3976	88	2968	3965	3679	4676
AST/SC 5	4499	88	3340	4346	4125	5130
AST/SC 6	5090	88	3757	4772	4625	5641

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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