Salary offers with Christmas and holiday money

Hi,

I'm moving to Munich at the weekend and need some clarification on a job I have been offered.

The contract says:
Der Mitarbeiter erhält für seine Leistungen ein Jahresbruttogehalt in Höhe von
€ XXXXXXXXX und zählt zur Vertrauensarbeitszeit. Im Jahresbruttogehalt sind auch
Weihnachts- und Urlaubsgeld (1/12 bzw. 1/24, im Eintritts- und Austrittsjahr jeweils
anteilig) enthalten. Gleichzeitig sind mit dem Jahresbruttogehalt geleistete
Mehrarbeitszeiten abgegolten.

This roughly means (I think) that the salary of XXX is paid and includes holiday and Christmas money rated at 1/12 of salary for Christmas money and 1/24 of salary for holiday money.

Does this mean that my gross monthly salary will be the gross yearly /12 OR that the monthly salary will be minus 1/12 Christmas money and 1/24 holiday money. This would affect my monthly take home as the Christmas and Holiday money would only be paid at Christmas and when I had Holiday.

Thanks in advance,

It means your monthly salary will be X/13.5

Then you get 1 extra month in the winter check, and .5 extra in the summer

Normally you would get an extra check with half months pay in June/July and an extra check in November/December with a full months pay.

Thanks,

Just got the same answer from their HR department.

Its likely that i will be starting my job in november. Will i also be entitled to Weihnachts geld?

Normally it is proportional to the amount of months that you worked for the company in the given year. So you will probably get only 2/12 of the Weihnachtsgeld. On the other side - if you leave the company in November they should pay you the Weihnachtsgeld for the months you worked.

That's how it works in the companies I know.

Thanks!

This varies from company to company, but should be clearly explained in the contract of employment.

one should also point out that the last line of the German text states that overtime work is already rewarded with this pay and will not be paid extra! While there are, as far as I know, some legal limits as to how much overtime would be covered with this rule, it is important to know nevertheless

One more tipp: check if you are eligible for public or private health insurance. If it will be public health insurance only, make sure that you discuss with the HRM people that you'll get yourself into the least expensive one because very often they just sign you up as a default solution with AOK and this can costs you net 30-50 EUR per month more.

Cheerio

Hello,

Finally got the work contract today. According to which i get,

Grundentgelt E7 - xxxx €
Leistungszulage - 0,00€
Betriebliche zulage - xxxx € (This is actually 8.65 % of Grundentgelt)

What is Betriblich zulage?
Will this amount also be taxed?
Will my health insurance (NOT a private one) be 12.4% of Grundentgelt or the total pay? (P.s. i calculated 12.4 assuming that i will be taking IKK)

cheers,

LONG-HAUL

This means that all regulary received payments from your job will be counted towards the computation of income for public health insurance. Pls bear in mind that there is a ceiling/cap for the highest possible amount based upon which the highest public health insurance cost is computed. It currently lies by 3.600.- EUR gross salary. Therefore, if your total gross salary is 4.000.- or 4.500.- EUR does not make a difference anymore since your public health insurance costs will be computed based on max. 3.600.- EUR. In which case with IKK DIREKT you'll be charged from your pay around 255,60 EUR.
Cheerio