Hello,

I've been thinking about changing jobs, some of the companies I've looked at are foreign companies with no business entities in Belgium.

A lot of jobs seem high paying at a glance – €80k or €120k for example, however I'm wondering what kind of salary this would actually result in if you work for these companies through remote.com. I imagine they would do some optimization – which is unfortunately very important in Belgium given all the silly benefits you can get. At the same time, they'd take a piece of the pie I imagine.

Does anyone here work with a foreign company through remote.com and has any experience or knowledge on what I should expect. If the yearly salary is €80k gross before taxes (which for non-Belgium companies probably means also before social security), what should I realistically expect to have left, and what kind of optimization do they do?

by CloseDdog

2 comments

  1. I haven’t worked with remote.com myself, but I know quite some people who work with the company. I used a similar EOR called Oyster. Check this calculator that will give you a rough estimate for your net. Unfortunately they don’t calculate any tax and extra legal benefits.

    https://web.oysterhr.com/cost-calculator#

  2. Your salary isn’t going to change because they work with an employer of record like Remote, Deel, RemoFirst, Oyster, etc. There are seperate fees that the employer would pay to use the service and platform to legally hire you compliantly in Belgium. Of course, an employer could slightly lower the salary in the job listing to try to cover their costs using the provider. But if it’s already in the €80k to €120k range, so you aren’t going to see an EOR provider deduction from your salary for them to cover the cost.

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