Step-by-step plan: how do I calculate my salary?

Hospitality: job classification and wages as of 1-1-2024

In the new hospitality CLA, salary increases are included. We receive many questions about this. To make the calculation clearer, you can follow a flowchart with several associated step-by-step plans. Using the flowchart, you can easily determine what you should earn as of January 2024.  

It is important that you already know which reference job your company position is compared to and in which job grade (salary scale) you are. Don't know yet? Then first follow the steps in 1. If you already know this, you can directly follow the flowchart under 2.  

1. How do I know if I am classified in the correct salary scale (job grade)?

Your employer determines a job by creating a description of your main tasks and responsibilities. He then compares these with the jobs listed in the Hospitality Reference Jobs Handbook. The job is linked to a salary scale, a job grade, from the hospitality CLA. Below are some examples:

The job grade determines what you should earn at a minimum. Always check if you are classified in the correct job grade. You can check the job grade in the employment contract. Can't figure it out? Then ask your employer which reference job and job grade you are classified in. You can find the wages in the hospitality CLA. Have all the information? Then go to 2.

2. View the flowchart below and follow the steps. Are you entitled to a salary increase?

Note! When increasing your salary, your periodic number may change.

Step-by-step Plan 1

1. Determine your actual gross salary on 31 December 2023 (on a full-time basis: 38 hours per week). Check your payslip.
2. See if this salary in the salary table as of 1 January 2024 is above the final salary of the job grade that corresponds to your job. If this is the case, then the CLA does not entitle you to a salary increase. If not, go to step 3.
3. Check the overview to see by what percentage the job grade corresponding to the job increases as of 1 January 2024. This overview can be found in article 4.7 paragraph 2 sub d of the hospitality CLA. 
4. Translate the structural increase(s) given outside the CLA from 1 July 2022 to 31 December 2023 into a percentage. You can use a calculator for this.
5. Subtract the percentage from step 4 from the percentage in step 3.
6. Increase the actual salary of 31 December 2023 by the result from step 5.
7. You will be placed in the next higher periodic in the new salary table as of 1 January 2024, unless the salary exceeds the final salary. In that case, you will be placed at the final salary. 
8. If you meet the conditions for an annual periodic based on art. 4.11, you will be placed in the next periodic*.

Step-by-step Plan 2

1. Check which job grade and periodic you are placed in.
2. If you have a salary above the final salary of the new salary table of 1 January 2024, then there is no right to a salary increase. If not, proceed to step 3.
3. Check the new salary table for the job grade and periodic you are in.
4. Check if you meet the conditions* to receive an extra periodic:
   a. If yes, go up 1 periodic in the new salary table. This is your new salary.
   b. If no, then you are entitled to the salary from the new salary table for the job grade and periodic you were in.

Step-by-step Plan 3

1. Determine your actual gross salary on 31 December 2023 (on a full-time basis: 38 hours per week). Check your payslip.
2. Check which job grade you are classified in.
3. Check if the actual salary is equal to, higher, or lower than the base salary of the job grade corresponding to the job in the salary table as of 1 January 2024:
   a. Salary higher than base salary? Then you receive the salary corresponding to the next higher periodic. If you also meet the conditions* for the annual periodic, you get this on top and this becomes your new salary.
   b. Salary lower than base salary? Then your salary is supplemented to the new base salary.  

(*) You are entitled to a periodic increase on 1 January if you have been employed as a skilled worker in the same company position with the same employer for a full calendar year, unless you have performed poorly or insufficiently.