How pay and appointments work at Council of Europe.
The Council of Europe runs four grade categories — C for support roles, B for technical and executive work, A for policy and management, and L for linguists — and pays each of them differently in each country it has offices in. Every figure below is a net monthly salary, after social security and pension contributions, for someone at the first step of the grade. Council of Europe salaries are exempt from national income tax in member states.
Where a vacancy is advertised at A1/A2 or L1/L2, a candidate with at least six years of relevant experience is appointed at the higher grade; at B1/B2 or C1/C2 the threshold is four years. No A6 or A7 figure is published for Türkiye, so those cells are empty rather than borrowed.
A published figure at Council of Europe is neither take-home nor total package. These are the terms that sit around it.
Terms are the employer’s own and can change; the governing staff regulations prevail over anything summarised here. Amounts quoted are the figures in the published document at the time of writing and are reviewed periodically.
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The Council of Europe has its headquarters in Strasbourg, France. It employs 2 200 people, and maintains external and liaison offices to other international organisations. The European Youth…
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