Discover why more Belgians are opting for a mobility budget instead of company cars.
✔ 5% of Brussels employers now offer the mobility budget, up from 2.6%.
✔ New government mandate: employers must offer mobility budget if entitled to a company car.
✔ In Brussels, 13.5% of employees opted for the mobility budget.
More Brussels employees swap their company car for mobility budget
Cars in Brussels. Credit: Belga / Nicolas Maeterlinck
A growing number of people in Belgium are choosing a mobility budget over a company car. This money can be spent on sustainable transport options or housing costs, among others. This measure is particularly popular in Brussels.
One in 20 employees (5.2%) with a company car in Belgium exchanged their vehicle for a mobility budget in 2024 – a doubling compared to the previous year, an analysis by HR services provider SD Worx showed.
"An important reason for this growth is the doubling of the share of employers who want to offer the mobility budget to their staff in the space of two years," Veerle Michiels, mobility expert at SD Worx, said. The group of people benefitting from this incentive does still represent a minority of one in 120 employees or 0.85% of employees in the private sector.
In Brussels however, the budget has become significantly more popular. One in seven Brussels employees traded in their car for the federal mobility budget (13.5%) in 2024. This can be explained by the fact that the use of cars is discouraged and alternatives are much more popular and accessible.
By contrast, in Flanders just one in 27 employees (3.7%) have made the transition. In Wallonia it's even less: just one in 40 give up their company car for the budget (2.5%). Many more employees rely on cars to commute to work in these two regions.
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Overall, 5% of Brussels employers offer employees a mobility budget, up from 2.6% in 2022. "If you take into account the number of employers per region, Brussels employers are the quickest to embrace the mobility budget." In Flanders, 1.6% offer it, and in Wallonia, 1.2% of companies allow employees to trade their company car.
The new government wants to give the federal mobility budget an extra boost. "From now on, employers will have to systematically offer it to those who are entitled to a company car," Veerle Michiels, mobility expert at SD Worx, said.
