The role that changes your career often appears on no job board. It is filled in confidence – through contacts, through referrals, through people who know who is meant. That is exactly where our work begins. See for yourself what a single, well-guided move is worth to you over ten years.
Three levers, one head start
Grown over years, personally maintained: direct lines to decision-makers in Banking & Finance, Legal & Tax and Office – rooted in Munich, across the DACH region. Where others add an application to a queue, we have a conversation. When we put you forward, your profile doesn’t land in an inbox – it lands on the desk.
Before we bring you to the table, we understand your path, your expertise and what you are truly looking for – and we know what the other side expects. So you don’t arrive as one application among many, but as the one profile already reviewed and found to fit. That gives you credibility from the first minute and a noticeably stronger negotiating position.
Many of the most attractive positions are deliberately never advertised – out of discretion, for strategic reasons, often for key roles. Companies that stay silent to the outside fill quietly and through trust. These are precisely the roles we know. You don’t compete against hundreds; you are proposed directly.
Through our network grown over years, our professional pre-qualification and our access to companies that deliberately keep their positions off the public market, we place you in a role you will not find on any job board.
The salary calculator
A salary jump doesn’t only work in the first year, it compounds: every future raise builds on the higher level. Set the two sliders to your figures – the curves and the headline sum update live. Every assumption is disclosed; nothing is dressed up.
Your gross annual salary today (base, excluding bonus and special payments).
The gross annual salary you envisage in the new role. Often a realistic 10–20 % above today – you set the figure.
Your additional income over ten years
€182,500
That is the additional gross income your selected move generates over ten years – simply from the higher starting level and how it compounds.
€13,000
More in year 1
€1,083
Per month (year 1)
€101,772
Your salary in year 10
Two paths compared: the terracotta curve ‘with Phoenix’ starts at your target salary, the calm sage curve ‘without Phoenix’ at today’s salary. Both keep rising each year – the area between them is your gain.
What adds up year after year: the sum of the annual salary difference from the first to the tenth year. What begins as a modest jump grows over a decade into a figure few people have on their radar.
Illustrative model, non-binding, no guarantee. The figures shown are based on the disclosed assumptions above (2.0 % and 3.0 % annual increase, 10 years, gross, nominal) and your inputs. They constitute no offer, no commitment and no forecast of a specific salary. Actual salaries depend on market, sector, qualification, region, negotiation and economic conditions and may differ substantially – upwards and downwards. This page is no substitute for individual advice.
A first conversation is non-binding, free of charge and strictly confidential. Tell us in a few sentences where you want to go – we’ll discuss the rest in person. Clicking ‘Send confidential enquiry’ opens your email programme with a prepared message; nothing is transmitted until you send it.
Gross-to-net calculator
Set your gross salary, tax class and details – the calculator shows your net pay and breaks down every deduction: income tax, solidarity surcharge, church tax and pension, unemployment, health and long-term-care insurance. Preset for a single person (tax class I), as of 2026.
Tap an open position – gross salary and federal state are loaded into the calculator.
Monthly gross salary (base). The calculator is designed for employees with statutory insurance.
Class I
Default: class I (single). Select a class below to apply it.
From the age of 23, childless employees pay a long-term-care surcharge (+0.6 %).
From the 2nd child the care-insurance contribution decreases (−0.25 % per child, 2nd–5th, while the children are under 25).
Federal state (Bundesland)
Differences between states (monthly net)
Liable for church tax (8 % in Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, otherwise 9 % of income tax)
No
Your net salary (monthly)
€24,653.04 / year · Deduction rate 31.5 %
Your tax class determines how much income tax is withheld each month. Select a class to apply it to the calculator.
Simplified estimate for employees with statutory insurance, as of 2026. It covers income tax (§ 32a/§ 39b EStG), the solidarity surcharge, church tax and the employee shares of social security based on the official 2026 parameters (average additional health-insurance contribution 2.9 %). Individual allowances, benefits in kind or private health insurance are not reflected. This is not tax or legal advice — the result may differ from your actual payslip.
No pressure, no risk, no cost – just a confidential conversation about what could be next for you.
