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# Company specialist permit: definition and requirements

## A company specialist permit is a work permit granted to employees with a company and job specific knowledge. A university degree is not necessarily required in this case.

The main requirements for a **company specialist permit** are that:

- the employee is being offered a German employment contract;
- he carries a very detailed and job specific knowledge and
- that this specific knowledge is reflecting in the employee's salary (which therefore needs to be ca. 10 % higher than the standard salary in the same field).

Legal Reference: *§ 4 BeschV*

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