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Students and other statuses
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Student job, flexi-job, business and employment cooperative, artist, civil servant, teacher, pensioner, unemployment: the rules and net pay for each status. 16 tools and pages, all free, with no sign-up or cookies.
Students and first job
- Student job: limits and net pay650 hours, net pay, family allowances by region and the limit for remaining a dependant, with a planner.
- First job: everything that changesNet first salary, incomplete leave and holiday pay, youth holiday, health insurance fund, family allowances and tax, month by month.
- Combining an activity with your studiesStudent job, self-employed student, platform work, amateur arts, volunteering: what is allowed and what affects your allowances.
Other statuses
- Flexi-job: ceiling and net payNet equals gross, a ceiling of €18,440 a year, eligibility conditions and combining it with your job.
- TeacherTenured or temporary: net pay, the workload in periods, holiday pay, the year-end bonus and the summer for temporary teachers.
- Can I combine?Unemployment, illness, pension, studies or Public Centre for Social Welfare (CPAS/OCMW): can you add an activity, on what conditions, with what formalities and for what net pay?
- Back to work after unemploymentUnemployment limited to 24 months: what a job brings in, the income guarantee allowance (AGR/IGU) for part-time work, a flexi-job or the Tremplin-indépendants scheme, month by month.
- Civil servantStatutory or contract staff: net pay, gross for gross, holiday pay, the end-of-year allowance and the pension.
- Business and employment cooperative (Smart)What remains of an amount invoiced through Smart (6.5%, then 1.55 × gross pay), and the comparison with a self-employed person.
- Working pensionerUnlimited combining from age 66 or after a 45-year career, early retirement limits, flexi-job, self-employment and tax.
- ArtistArticle 1bis, Smart, self-employed, copyright income or amateur arts allowance (€81.90 a day): the net pay for each status.
- Copyright income: how much you keepWhat you keep from your copyright income in 2026, and what the same amount would give as a salary.
- Volunteering: allowances and ceilingsFor associations: what flat-rate allowance to pay without exceeding the 2026 ceilings.
- Working while unemployedControl card, Tremplin-indépendants scheme, flexi-job, associative work, volunteering: what is allowed during full or temporary unemployment.
- Combining an activity with a pension2026 limits, activities that count, declaration to the Federal Pension Service and the effect on your pension.
- Working during incapacity for workAuthorised work and gradual return to work: the medical adviser’s approval, the reduction of the benefit and the rules for the self-employed.
Guided paths
- I’m finishing my studiesFrom student job to first salary: what changes, month by month.
- I’m losing my jobNotice, compensation, unemployment and returning to work.
- I’m preparing for retirementYour net pension, working while retired, combining income and pension savings.
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