Sorry, I was talking about contracting companies that provide work hours with their own employees, who are on contract. Companies like Altran for example. I co

Sorry, I was talking about contracting companies that provide work hours with their own employees, who are on contract. Companies like Altran for example. I counted around 215-220 days of work per year for an employee. When counting holidays and so on that's about what you get in my experience in several European countries (mainly France and Spain, but also Germany where rates are higher it's true). And yes, those employees get paid less than the internal employees of their customer. That's why they're often young. Concerning freelance contractors, they get the full 100k€+ a year, but they then about half is going away in taxes. Still it's significantly more than employees, which compensates for the instability.