It has been one year since the enactment of Directive 2023/970 of the European Parliament, also known as the Salary Transparency Law. This law will require all companies to make public the salary ranges of all their employees. In other words, you will know if your colleagues receive the same salary as you for doing the same job. With this measure, the European Directive aims to strengthen equal pay between men and women for work of equal value, setting the gender pay gap at a maximum of 5%, compared to the current European average of 13%. The law came into
I wonder if this could help the IT workers from the public sector in Germany (E12, around 2500 €/month).
Anyone knows why it is like that?
Once, I heard about some speculative extra amounts made by guarantees in purchases. (Germans love guarantees, and any hardware purchase has a 50% surplus that can easily be split 1:1 between vendor and whoever was in charge. Yes, it would be illegal… But nearly impossible to prove.)
I work in the Dutch public sector in IT, but with a few years of experience, I’m already beyond 4k/mo.
Sounds like the union isn’t pulling it’s weight…
In this case the Unions and HRs rigidity could be part of the problem.
They tend to make groups based on formal qualifiaction. E.g. all trade apprentices get similiar salaries, all trade masters, all bachelor degrees and all master degrees (simplified).
So a person with just a formal trade apprentice, but great experience and proven know-how will still get a much lower salary than a recently graduates business degree “idiot” who mostly managed to study based on his parents pushing him through.
I’ve seen Job ads for cloud experts, who are supposed to organize an infrastructure over multiple data centres, running hundreds of different services in a heightened security environment offered around 3k. The Operations people said that this does not need a masters degree, because they didn’t want to filter out all the self taught people, and then HR and the Union reps said this is a trade level position so it gets a trade level salary.
From what i understood with the complexity of the IT landscape they would have needed to offer more around 6-7k to find people.
You’re net salary is beyond 4k? Are you hiring?
Why net all of the sudden?
Because the German salary is net and I thus assumed that the Dutch salary is as well.
What do you mean by ”sudden”?
Why net? In Sweden we only ever talk about gross, or as we save “before taxes”, as it varies around the country.
Germans do too, no idea what OC was thinking about. It indeed doesn’t make sense to talk about net as that changes with personal circumstances.
The group E12 that was mentioned starts at 4170€/ month gross. That’s just under the German average wage (but above Median).
Same in the Netherlands, so I’d assume the Dutch salary is gross as well.
Well the German one isn’t though, so this is like comparing apples to oranges
Yeah I think that’s the point they were trying to make :)
Because E12 refers to a very specific salary table. Hence the German salary must be net.
Why would you compare Net and gross salaries?
Those jobs exist, and are hiring. My company (US-based, Software, between 1k and 10k employees) is hiring architects in Germany (anywhere, 100% remote) for significantly over 4k net. Starting salary is over 100k, plus a nice RSU package (4 year vest with 1 year cliff). Other similar companies offer comparable compensation packages.
We do require a quite wide tech knowledge and good communication (customer interaction is part of the job, sometimes public speaking). It is not as relaxed as public sector, tho, most weeks are over 40h. Some traveling required, too.
If anyone is interested feel free to ping me (full disclosure: Iget a 5k USD referral bonus if you get hired and pass the Probezeit).
Ping. Contact me via PM please.
I am interested as well
Feel free to pm me if you have any questions :)
Something I forgot to add above: since the position requires speaking with customers, most countries require fluent local language (apparently with the exception of Scandinavia).
Got the knowledge I think, but not the spunk for the hours. You wouldn’t hire 4 days a week would you :-) ?
I’m not the hiring manager, but as far as I know we don’t hire part time :(
Thanks anyways 😉 !
It’s gross, not net. The net amount is like 3200.
Weirdly, I work for an international company that does location-based pay, and the pay scales in the Netherlands are about 9% lower than those in Germany 😒
These are the payment scales in the Dutch government: https://www.caorijk.nl/cao-rijk/hoofdstuk-6/salarisschalen
My sector is scale 10 or 11 depending on starting experience. 10 grows a bit faster the first few years to reflect a junior position.
Yeah sorry, I meant the pay scales within my company - i.e. a colleague of mine moved from Germany to the Netherlands, kept the same job at the same level, and had to accept a 9% pay cut.
Oh wow. That is harsh.
Sounds more like the union is not needed at all in that sector. 2500€/month is a fine starting pay, especially if it rises so rapidly.
E12 starts at 4.170,32 € gross and up to rises 6.516,74 € depending on experience. That is gross. That is for a job, which is low stress and you can not be fired unless you pretty much commit a crime on the workplace.
Maybe government IT in Germany is low stress. Maybe the average in my country is also. But my department surely isn’t low stress. Could be because I work at a research institute that has been leading the charge into public cloud?
There’s also the possibility that the definition of stress differs. I’m in an IT position where I control most of my schedule and pace of work, I work at home without much supervision, and I’m very much a trusted employee. That means I have less body stress and other stresses than a large amount of people, but at the end of the day my mental stress can still give me headaches and wear me out (and of course real life stresses. I’m paid pretty well for the company I work at, but it’s still kinda low to be supporting myself and a family member still trying to find employment).