Total, total. Well, it is a permanent 120Eu per month (usually inflation adjusted, more or less), which considering that the tenured professor salary starts at

Total, total. Well, it is a permanent 120Eu per month (usually inflation adjusted, more or less), which considering that the tenured professor salary starts at like 1800Eu per month, is not so bad (at least it is some incentive). You can end up with 5 (or 6, if lucky) of these. You see: the problem is not the incentive, but the salary itself. (All the numbers above are more or less with taxes and Social Security already discounted). Edit: never underestimate the power of saving and compound interest.