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Units

We’re an international company, so when we talk about numbers, there might be some different customs that each country has.

Full Time

As a full-time employee, how many hours do I actually need to work?

• Austria: 38.5h of actual work per week.

• Croatia: 37.5h of actual work per week.

• Serbia: 37.5h of actual work per week.

Lunch and other breaks do not count towards the number above, and should not be tracked.

Whether your lunch break counts as paid work or not depends on your country's laws (and of course we follow that), but that is unrelated to the actual time listed above that you spend working-working.

Part-time employees can just pro-rate the numbers above. e.g. someone working 4 days a week in Austria would need to work 30.8h per week.

Time tracking

• Same rules regardless of country. Track what you work. Not lunch breaks.

• In Croatia, employees should not track the lunch break. In Croatia, these extra 30 minutes are added onto your tracked worktime by the finance team (=Anita).

Salary number

When we colloquially talk about for example a 2000 EUR salary and we don’t specify units, typically this means:

• Austria: 2000 EUR/mo gross. Paid out 14x per year.

• Croatia: 2000 EUR/mo net. Paid out 12x per year.

• Vendor/Freelancer: 2000 EUR net (exclusive of VAT).

With employees, the correct way would be to talk about gross (as we normally do in Austria), but colloquially, in Croatia especially, people often talk about net. When in doubt, as the person to clarify what they mean.

Internally, when we talk about salaries, we should always denominate it as gross.

Salary increases

When we talk about someone getting a salary bump (e.g. Peter gets a 4% salary bump), we should always do that on the gross salary, to make comparisons fair. If Peter gets a 4% bump on gross basis, but Bernd gets 4% on net basis, then Bernd got more. Whatever the fair number ends up being depends on the situation, but to avoid confusion, we should always talk percentage increase on gross.