Top 20 countries with the highest salary of Marie-Curie Fellowship

21 June 2017

In this post, we have listed the countries with the highest salary of the Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. If you are willing to apply for the Marie-Curie Individual Fellowships, you might wonder how the payment in different countries differs.

Countries with the highest salary for Marie-Curie Fellowship

The very competitive nature of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSC-IF) is not the only distinction of this program but also the high salary of the fellows makes it very special in grants intended for junior scholars. One of the particular facts about this fellowship is that you can get the money to pursue your idea in almost all countries worldwide.

Mobility Rules: Marie-Curie Fellowship

There are however some exceptions. There are some mobility rules that do not allow you to apply for the fellowship in the place where you have received your PhD. To be more precise, the mobility rules provided by EC reads:

The researcher must not have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the beneficiary for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the call deadline.

This simply means that you should move (no worries, you get 600 Euro/month “mobility allowance” for that!). Since the cost of living in different countries are very different, the program organizers have developed a factor known as the Country Correction Coefficient (CCC) which normalizes the salary to the typical cost of living in the host country. In other words, the basic salary (known as “living allowance”) will be multiplied by a CCC number of the host country to determine the gross salary of the fellow.

List of top-paying countries with the highest salary for the Marie-Curie Fellowship

Here in this article, we list the top twenty-four countries where you get the highest salary if you do your fellowship. In other words, if you select the countries listed in the table below, you will get the highest possible salary in your postdoc contract. The calculation was made based on the CCC number of the countries which you can find the list in this PDF file (link). The list of top twenty countries with the highest salary for Marie-Curie Fellowships might look a bit odd. Note that the classification of the countries is only based on the cost of living (expenses) and nothing else!

List of the countries with the highest salary for the Marie-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship. 

Please note that in the table below, two sets of data are provided. The one is for those fellows who are not living with their families and those who have an accompanying family.

 CCCAnnual living allowanceMobility allowance per yearThe family allowance per yearAnnual income before tax (for the single researcher)
Annual income before tax (for the researcher with family)
Bermuda151.584537720060009173797737
Denmark135.375497.47200600082697.488697.4
Faroe Islands134.174827.87200600082027.888027.8
Norway131.973600.27200600080800.286800.2
New Caledonia128.971926.27200600079126.285126.2
Congo127.671200.87200600078400.884400.8
Chad125.369917.47200600077117.483117.4
UK120.367127.47200600074327.480327.4
Iceland116.665062.87200600072262.878262.8
Finland116.665062.87200600072262.878262.8
Barbados116.665062.87200600072262.878262.8
Japan115.964672.27200600071872.277872.2
Russia115.564449720060007164977649
Angola114.663946.87200600071146.877146.8
The central African Republic114.363779.47200600070979.476979.4
Ireland113.563333720060007053376533
Switzerland113.163109.87200600070309.876309.8
Gabon113.163109.87200600070309.876309.8
Vanuatu112.662830.87200600070030.876030.8
Sweden111.762328.67200600069528.675528.6
France11161938720060006913875138
Liechtenstein11061380720060006858074580
Italy106.759538.67200600066738.672738.6
Netherlands104.358199.47200600065399.471399.4

Here, you can find more details on Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSC-IF):

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Some information about the calculation of the countries with the highest salary for the Marie-Curie Fellowship

If you are interested to know the salary in different countries, have a look at this table where the CCC of the country is tabulated. Then, use the earlier post on the salary calculation of the Marie-curie fellowship to calculate the exact number. In the video below, you can watch the top countries with the highest Marie curie postdoctoral salary as of October 2020 (valid until 2021). 

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