What does an AD7 Temporary Agent at the Commission actually take home — Italian, married, two children?

► HR · TA Contracts
Setting the parameters. The post is graded AD7 and the engagement is a full-time fixed-term Temporary Agent contract under the Conditions of Employment of Other Servants. TA pay is set by reference to the officials' pay table (CEOS Art. 20), so the AD7 grid applies, with one difference on the deductions side: temporary and contract agents also pay the unemployment-insurance contribution, which established officials do not. Grade is fixed by the post; the step depends on recognised prior experience under SR Art. 32(2). With no experience stated, I compute at step 1 — the conservative default — and flag the uplift if experience is recognised.
[EUR-Lex — verify CEOS Art. 20; SR Art. 32(2)]

► PMO · Rights & Pay
Family and expatriation profile. The agent is married to a spouse not in gainful employment, so the household allowance is due: a fixed part plus 2 percent of basic salary (Annex VII Art. 1). Two children aged 3 and 8 both draw the dependent-child allowance (Art. 2). For the education allowance (Art. 3), only the 8-year-old qualifies — it requires a child in full-time education aged 5 to 26; the 3-year-old does not yet. On expatriation: the agent is an Italian national posted to Brussels, having moved from Italy, so the Art. 4 test — not a national of the place of employment and no habitual residence there in the reference period — is met. The 16 percent expatriation allowance applies, not the reduced 4 percent foreign-residence rate.
[EUR-Lex — verify SR Annex VII Arts. 1-4]

► Staff Regs · Legal
Confirming the legal mechanics of the deductions. EU staff pay no national income tax; instead the Community tax under Protocol No. 7 Article 13 applies progressively. The taxable base is gross remuneration minus the pension, sickness and unemployment contributions, minus a personal allowance and a deduction per dependent child — not the gross figure itself. The pension contribution (10.10 percent) and the JSIS sickness contribution (2 percent) are levied on basic salary only, not on allowances. These are the 2026 rates; they are adjusted annually, so anything computed here must be re-verified against the table in force.
[EUR-Lex — verify Protocol No. 7 Art. 13; SR Annex VIII]

► PMO · Payroll
Running the figures for AD7 step 1 in Brussels (correction coefficient 1.0). Basic salary 6,281.12. Allowances: household 336.24, dependent children 864.76, education 89.22, expatriation 1,211.41. Gross remuneration 8,782.75. Deductions: pension 634.39, JSIS 125.62, unemployment 50.88, and Community tax 1,133.85 on a taxable base of 7,096.96. Total deductions 1,944.74. Net monthly salary 6,838.01 euro. At step 2 or 3 the basic rises to 6,526.17 or 6,782.26 and the net rises with it. This is an indicative computation — PMO issues the binding figure on appointment.
[SR Annex I 2026 — verify if after January 2027]
[review — PMO calculation required]

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