Counting PhD years for Tvöd salary in Germany
Probably not. &quot;Work experience&quot; assumes that the person is employed on a position relevant for the position that the &quot;Stufe&quot; is calculated for. From my experience, there is basically no flexibility in bending the interpretation of the TV-L/TV-H (I assume you mean either of them, since they are the relevant &quot;Tarifverträge&quot; for scientific employees).