With these jobs, you earn more per month than the prime minister

If you're ever thinking about a drastic career change: we know what you should choose. Go for a job that pays more than the prime minister.

In other words: more salary than the boss of our country. Sounds impossible, but it doesn't have to be that difficult. As PM, you earn around 10,000 euros per month. Not bad, certainly not. But if you're a researcher in bacteriology, you'll quickly earn double. Woohoo. Hanging under the microscope all day for 20,000 euros per month. Just to name something. Not so into the creepy crawlies?

What about being an orthodontist? Putting braces in teenage mouths isn't so bad if you can go skiing in Verbier four times a year, right? As a pilot, you also earn more than the prime minister: up to 16,000 euros per month. Plus, you get free lovers and vacations. Prefer to be sporty? As a cyclist, you can earn up to 40,000 euros per month. And a pulmonologist is good for 20,000 euros per month. You're almost a royal with that salary – hello Chanel bag in six shades of black.

If that all seems a bit boring, go for a job as a stuntman. A bit of jumping out of windows and dramatically falling onto an air cushion. You can get up to 70,000 euros per month deposited into your account, and then such a fake fall is quickly no disaster. Did you know that being a soldier is also nice for the wallet? It can earn you 19,000 euros per month if you do it well. But the astronaut wins. Chase that exciting childhood dream, because you get 140,000 euros per month for it.

Oh, that poor Mark Rutte. Suddenly we feel a bit sorry for him, because we think he works the hardest of everyone, for years. We genuinely wish him a day of binge-watching on the couch. And a year-end bonus.