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Salary Survey Netherlands 2026
Get the most complete overview of current salaries and hiring trends in the Netherlands.
Salary Survey 2026: The complete guide for benchmarking up to date salaries
The Salary Survey is the ultimate tool for comparing salaries with others in your field. We provide you with facts and analyses to make bold decisions, fine-tune the next step in your career, and stay ahead of the competition when it comes to attracting and retaining talent.
We offer insights into salaries in the Netherlands and the job market for both permanent and interim positions across various fields in the Netherlands, including accounting & finance, banking & financial services, customer operations, human resources, office & management support, legal, sales & marketing, (semi) public sector, supply chain & logistics, tax and treasury.
Salary benchmarking
In the Salary Survey you will find an overview per field of work, containing:
- Job market developments
- In-demand skills
- Salary expectations
Whether you're seeking global, national or local information, you will find it in our Salary Survey 2026.
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Key Salary & Compensation insights in the Netherlands
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Salary Trends in 2026
In 2026, salaries for permanent roles are expected to remain largely stable, with increases mainly limited to inflation adjustments. Scarce specialist profiles can, however, expect more noticeable salary growth. Interim rates also remain mostly steady, although a growing supply of professionals is leading to a slight decrease in hourly rates for certain profiles. Demand for strong talent continues to exceed supply in many areas. At the same time, organisations are making more deliberate choices in their hiring and the use of temporary project support. As a result, the labour market is increasingly focused on the right skills and building teams for long-term success.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Why should I use a salary guide?
To find out what a reasonable salary is for the job and industry you are in or are thinking of moving into, use our guide to discover the average pay for someone with a similar level of experience as you and view your earning potential. -
What are the benefits of using a salary benchmarking guide?
Whether you're due a pay rise, promotion, or bonus, our guide allows you to review accurate market salary and pay averages to see how you can compare to others in your sector. Having accurate data-led information will help identify exactly how much you should be earning so you can prepare to negotiate your pay in your next performance review. -
When is the best time to negotiate my pay?
Pay reviews often take place during the annual and half-year employee performance review periods. Make sure you take this into consideration and time your negotiation right. If the annual pay review is in January, and you call the meeting for February, you're likely to have missed the boat. In such a case, November would be the most suitable time here. -
What is the salary benchmarking process and why is it important?
Salary benchmarking is the process of comparing salaries across the market for a particular job and providing a range and average for a particular role which can help guide an employer's decision-making on pay or bonuses during appraisal period or when making a new hire. The benchmarking process is essential for assessing and comparing pay and compensation packages in relation to the market and of those provided by competitors. Pay and compensation benchmarking can also provide significant competitor advantage, through the retention and attraction of top talent and enhancing an organisations reputation. -
How to do benchmarking?
In partnership with a data collection specialist, a benchmarking tool offers a fully comprehensive list of salary ranges and averages based on location, experience level and more. You can view the latest salary range and averages in our 2026 guide. -
How should employers evaluate employee pay & compensation during performance reviews?
Salary and compensation reviews often take place during the annual and half-year employee performance reviews. In tangent with the employee performance scoring, you can use a salary benchmarking tool to inform the pay and compensation review process. The tool also gives good insight into market trends in-demand skill sets. So, use performance reviews to see where the employee fits relative to the external jobs market and avoid losing in-demand talent through effective pay and compensation strategies.
Bespoke salary benchmarking
Using a combination of our own data, publicly available insights and our recruitment experts, we build bespoke overviews of the salaries and benefits required to attract talent.