Grade AD
Contract Type Temporary Agent
Salary Range €6,153 - €6,961/month
Position details
- Reference
- Cedefop/2023/04/AD
- Last Verified
- 27 May 2026
Position overview
This is the official EU Careers listing for Expert in Policy Analysis and Qualifications at CEDEFOP based in Thessaloniki, Greece at the AD grade level (Temporary Agent). The vacancy reference is Cedefop/2023/04/AD.
Key facts on file for this position: grade AD; contract type Temporary Agent; duty station Thessaloniki, Greece. Full responsibilities, eligibility criteria, language requirements, and the selection procedure are set out in the official vacancy notice.
Salary at this grade
Basic monthly salary at AD runs from €6,153 (step 1) to €6,961 (top step), giving an annual range of roughly €73,836–€83,532 before tax and allowances. Steps increase automatically every two years; the figures here are taken from the salary grid in the EU Staff Regulations.
Eligible staff posted away from their country of nationality also receive an expatriation allowance worth 16% of basic salary — around €984 per month at step 1 of AD — together with household, dependent-child, and education allowances where applicable. Take-home pay is then adjusted by the country correction coefficient for Thessaloniki, Greece. For a worked example see our correction coefficients guide and the EU salaries overview.
Application timeline
This vacancy was first listed on 27 May 2026, today.
No closing date is published in the source feed for this position. EU vacancies typically remain open for four to eight weeks; check the official vacancy notice for the cut-off date and time.
Last verified against the EU Careers feed on 27 May 2026.
Where to learn more
For full responsibilities, requirements, and career progression at AD see our AD grade page; for headcount, mission, and other open vacancies at CEDEFOP see the CEDEFOP institution page; for the cost of living, correction coefficient, and other postings in Thessaloniki, Greece see our Thessaloniki, Greece location page.
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Net pay at this grade
At step 1 of AD, gross monthly basic salary on the Administrators grid is €6,153. Eligible expatriate staff add a 16% expatriation allowance on top — roughly €984 per month — before two automatic deductions reduce the taxable base: the joint sickness insurance scheme (JSIS, ~3.6% — €257) and the EU pension contribution (~10.3% — €735). EU community tax (Council Reg. 260/68) is then applied progressively; for the AD7-equivalent band the effective rate sits in the 11-13% range, which works out to about €737 per month here.
For Thessaloniki, Greece we apply the Brussels-equivalent coefficient (100%) as a default — the official coefficient may differ, see the methodology guide for the most recent table. On those assumptions take-home pay is approximately €5,408 per month, or about €64,891 per year — before household and dependent-child allowances, which can add several hundred euros monthly for staff with families. For the exact bracket-by-bracket computation see our
net-pay methodology, and our
correction coefficients guide for the full duty-station table.
Comparable recent roles
In the last twenty-four months CEDEFOP (and the wider Commission and agencies family) has filled several adjacent roles at the same AD grade level. The most recent comparable vacancies, with their actual application windows:
- Expert in Public Policy and Data Analysis at CEDEFOP — published 2026-05-27, closed 2024-10-02
- Stakeholder Engagement and Communication Officer at CEDEFOP — published 2026-05-27, closed 2024-11-20
- Head of Department at CEDEFOP — published 2026-05-27, closed 2025-01-22
- Brussels Liaison Officer at CEDEFOP — published 2026-05-27, closed 2025-07-24
- Legal Advisor and Data Protection Officer at CEDEFOP — published 2026-05-27, closed 2025-11-13
Pattern recognition matters here — recruiters at the same Directorate-General often re-advertise nearly identical profiles every six to nine months, so candidates who miss one window can typically position for the next one. Browse the live catalog:
all AD openings,
other vacancies at CEDEFOP.
Career trajectory
Career progression for AD staff is governed by Articles 44 to 46 of the Staff Regulations (consolidated text on
EUR-Lex) and Annex IB on the promotion procedure. Step increases are automatic every two years (Art. 44); grade promotion is competitive, based on the appraisal exercise (Art. 45) and the Career Development Review. For roles at CEDEFOP, progression to the next grade typically takes three to five years on merit, with two-yearly step increases in between. Article 46 governs the classification at recruitment, which sets the starting step within the grade (usually step 1 for external recruits without prior EU service, step 2 or 3 where relevant professional experience is recognised).
Mobility within the institutions is encouraged via the inter-institutional and intra-institutional vacancy publication system: temporary agents who pass the probation period and reservists from EPSO laureate lists can typically apply to internal vacancies after one year of service. Lateral moves between Directorates-General reset the seniority clock for promotion only if the new post carries a different grade.
Language profile
Beyond the formal language requirements stated in the vacancy notice, the day-to-day working languages at this employer are English and French in roughly equal measure, with German appearing in some technical files. Internal meetings and most policy drafting in Brussels run in English; French remains the preferred internal language in Luxembourg-based services and parts of DG TRADE.
Application cadence
Across the past twenty-four months 7 comparable openings with the same grade and subject area signature have been advertised by CEDEFOP or related EU bodies — 7 of them in the last twelve months alone. That cadence (roughly 3.5 per year) suggests a candidate who narrowly misses this competition can reasonably expect a similar profile to reopen within six to nine months.
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