Statutory minimum hourly wage

One hourly wage for the whole country

Since 1 January 2024 the Netherlands has a single statutory minimum hourly wage (minimumuurloon) that applies nationwide, under the Minimum Wage Act and the Act on fixed minimum hourly wages (Stb. 2023, 407). Before that reform the minimum was published as a monthly amount that quietly varied with the length of a full-time week; now there is one gross figure per worked hour, the same whether a full week in your sector is 36, 38 or 40 hours. The amounts on this page are those in force for 2026; nobody has signed them off.

The two 2026 periods

The minimum wage is re-indexed twice a year, so 2026 has two figures for workers aged 21 and over:

• € 14,71 per hour from 1 January 2026.
• € 14,99 per hour from 1 July 2026.

This is a gross figure — before wage tax and before the tax credits. To see what a minimum-wage salary is worth after deductions, put a monthly-equivalent gross into the calculator.

What that is per month

Because the statutory figure is now hourly, your monthly minimum depends entirely on your contracted hours. As an illustration only, worked out as hourly rate × hours per week × 52 ÷ 12:

• From 1 January 2026 (€ 14,71 an hour): roughly € 2.294,76 a month on a 36-hour week, about € 2.549,73 on a 40-hour week.
• From 1 July 2026 (€ 14,99 an hour): roughly € 2.338,44 a month on a 36-hour week, about € 2.598,27 on a 40-hour week.

These are gross figures before tax, and they are worked examples from the hourly rate — not an official monthly amount. Since 2024 there is no statutory monthly minimum to quote, so a 38-hour week lands on a different number again. If you work part-time, multiply the hourly rate by your own contracted hours; the hourly figure itself is the same for everyone aged 21 and over.

Minimum wage, minimum salary, minimum hourly rate — one figure

In everyday use these amounts go by many names: minimum wage, minimum salary, minimum hourly rate, or the Dutch minimumloon and minimumuurloon. For the wage your employer owes you the law now defines only one quantity, the statutory minimum hourly wage. Anything presented as a monthly minimum salary is a figure somebody worked out — useful as an example, but not a wage the government sets and not one you can invoke. (The Minimum Wage Act does still name a monthly amount, but expressly only for the purposes of other laws that refer to it when calculating benefits — not a wage you can claim from an employer.) The hourly figure is the one you can.

And what is left after tax?

The minimum wage is a gross amount. What you keep depends on the wage tax and above all on the tax credits: the general credit and the employment credit both reduce the withholding, and at lower incomes they do so sharply. There is no published “net minimum wage” — your net also depends on your contracted hours and on whether the payroll tax credit is applied by this employer. Put a monthly equivalent from above into the calculator for an indication. On top of gross there is also holiday allowance of 8,00%, built up separately.

Younger workers

The full minimum applies from age 21. Younger workers, from 15 to 20, are entitled to a fixed percentage of the adult minimum, rising with each year of age (the youth-minimum staffel). This calculator and page work with the adult 21-and-over figure; for the exact per-age amounts, which are published separately for each half-year, the authoritative source is Rijksoverheid. We do not reproduce them here because they are outside this version’s payload — stating them would go beyond what has been sourced.