IT salaries in Belgium Survey
Asha MenonCommunity desk
Brussels · Belgium · 29 May 2024 · 2 min read
Nobody tells you what the job you are interviewing for is actually worth here. In December 2023 an anonymous salary survey ran in a Belgian IT group; these are the numbers that came out of it, so at least you go into the conversation with something.
At a glance
By years of experience
| Experience | Average gross annual |
|---|---|
| 0–5 years | €55,000 |
| 6–10 years | €72,000 |
| 11–15 years | €90,000 |
| 16–20 years | €120,000 |
| 21+ years | €139,387 |
Read these as a rough floor, not a benchmark
This was a self-selected, anonymous survey on social media, not a market study — people who are happy with their pay answer more readily than people who are not. The bands mix roles and sectors, and the figures are from December 2023. Treat them as a sanity check on an offer, not as evidence in a negotiation.
What the numbers say beyond the averages
- Median €74,000 across all responses — a little above the 6–10 year average, which tells you where the bulk of respondents sat.
- Experience pays, but not uniformly. The trend is upward, with clear outliers where relatively junior people earn well — niche expertise or genuinely scarce skills.
- The top of the table is management, not engineering. Senior Manager led, followed by Product Owner and Service Delivery Manager.
- Cloud and infrastructure roles concentrated in the higher brackets.
What gross does not include
Belgian compensation is not one number, and comparing a gross salary against what you earned elsewhere will mislead you in both directions. The gross figures above are annual on the Belgian convention of roughly 13.92 months — twelve months plus holiday pay and a thirteenth-month bonus. On top of that, and not counted here:
- Meal vouchers (chèques-repas), typically €6–€8 per working day
- A company car or a mobility budget
- Hospitalisation and group insurance
- Eco vouchers, net expense allowances, home-working allowance
- Child allowance, which is paid by the region rather than the employer
Gross tells you very little on its own. Belgian tax is steep and the benefit packages are unusually large, so two offers with the same gross can differ substantially in what reaches your account. Run both through the gross-to-net calculation before you decide, and if you are newly arrived check whether the special tax regime for inbound taxpayers applies to you — it is worth more than most raises.
Survey data from December 2023, published here in 2024. Salaries have moved since, and this remains a small self-selected sample — for a current read, ask what people are seeing right now in the Namaste Community app.
From our desk, not official advice
Written by the Namaste Community desk under our standing byline, from the questions this community asks most often — not a single person's own account. Rules change and offices differ — check anything that matters with the people who decide it.
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