<<Additionally, and worth noting, this career path is also accessible to people in well-paid careers who are not ready to take a significant salary cut.>> My understanding is that it’s quite uncommon to get a role directly in the EC and the most common route is through the bluebook which would require a significant salary cut at least in the short term. So I’m not sure this narrative is a correct one to make. Could you clarify
The blue book internship is indeed the most common way to get started, especially for recent grads. So would require salary cut for the 5 months of the internship programme, but if you manage to stay on after that on a temporary contract, looking at net monthly salaries of ~€3.000 − 4.000.
If you manage to enter through the AD5 generalist competition mentioned above (or another field-specific competition), you start directly at the ~€6.000 net monthly salary mentioned in the post (or higher for field-specific competitions, which generally require some years of work experience to apply).
<<Additionally, and worth noting, this career path is also accessible to people in well-paid careers who are not ready to take a significant salary cut.>>
My understanding is that it’s quite uncommon to get a role directly in the EC and the most common route is through the bluebook which would require a significant salary cut at least in the short term. So I’m not sure this narrative is a correct one to make. Could you clarify
The blue book internship is indeed the most common way to get started, especially for recent grads. So would require salary cut for the 5 months of the internship programme, but if you manage to stay on after that on a temporary contract, looking at net monthly salaries of ~€3.000 − 4.000.
If you manage to enter through the AD5 generalist competition mentioned above (or another field-specific competition), you start directly at the ~€6.000 net monthly salary mentioned in the post (or higher for field-specific competitions, which generally require some years of work experience to apply).