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Eugenio Pescimoro
PROLOY TARAN DAS
living allowance
Hello to everyone, I'm having some doubts about the living allowance and I'd really appreciate any help. I am an early stage researcher in an Initial Training Network and I've been employed with a job contract by my University. I noticed that my annual gross salary is lower than the amount specified in the People Work Programme 2012, to which my specific network refers. Of course I adjusted the 38.000€ by the coefficient specific for the country in which I work and I calculated the gross amount, without taking the taxes into consideration. I was wondering if this is normal or if I should receive all the money described. Thank you in advance
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Dear Chengjun,
thank you for your answer. My problem is that the gross salary does not correspond to the specified amount. The net salary is even lower. I calculated the sum before deducting the social security contribution and it still does not match.
Dear Giulia,
what Chengjun tried to say is that your EMPLOYER social contributions can also be deducted, not only YOURS. i.e. you pay them twice, once for yourself, once for your organization.
See, if your calculated brutto differs from what you recieve by about the amount of your own social contributions - if yes, pretty sure this is the case. You can also check it in your contract in the section regarding your brutto payment.
This was the case for me and the difference was about 650 Euro / month for Germany.
Thanks a lot
Now I finally understand. Unfortunately, this was not specified in my contract and that's why I had this doubt. But now it's clear.
Thanks again
this has to be written down in the contract very clearly I guess. In any case, asking a respective HR person would not hurt
As mentioned above, your employer's social contributions can also be deducted from your own gross. This happened to me while I was also an ESR in Germany.
It was approximately 700 euro as well. I guess this is also the issue with your own salary.
All the best,
Zeynep
Hi there,
Exactly the same case here in Spain. Unfortunately, nobody from my Uni explained beforehand that, and I had to ask them at the momento of signing the contract. So I guess is something that happens to most of us.
Cheers,
Aníbal
“Consequently, the net salary results from deducting all compulsory (employer/employee) social security contributions as well as direct taxes (e.g. income tax) from the gross amounts. ”
It should be (employer/employee) social security contributions.