Country Overview

Wages and Prices in Netherlands

The Netherlands combines a high common-year wage with a below-benchmark price profile, letting readers inspect detailed categories instead of relying on an aggregate label alone.

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Wage history

How Wages Have Changed in Netherlands

Explore Netherlands’s PPP-adjusted annual wage history using a reported range rather than a filled-in series.

PPP-adjusted annual wage (USD)2000–2025 · touch or hover points for the selected range

Price levels

Price Levels in Netherlands

Compare everyday price levels using the United States benchmark of 100.

Overall

78.40Below U.S.21.6% below U.S.

Food

84.40Below U.S.15.6% below U.S.

Clothing

82.70Below U.S.17.3% below U.S.

Housing

73.10Below U.S.26.9% below U.S.

Health

60.80Below U.S.39.2% below U.S.

Transport

119.00Above U.S.19.0% above U.S.

Recreation

90.00Below U.S.10.0% below U.S.

Restaurants

99.20Near U.S.0.8% below U.S.

How to Read This View

Use 100 as the reference

The United States is fixed at 100 for every category. A value of 78.4 means that Netherlands’s price level is about 21.6% below the U.S. benchmark, while a value of 119 means it is approximately 19% higher.

Compare categories, not household bills

Each row represents a separate spending category. The values show relative price levels rather than the actual amount a household spends. A higher transport index does not necessarily mean that total living costs are higher by the same amount.

Check the selected year

The year buttons update all displayed categories together. Missing observations are shown as unavailable and are never replaced with values from another year.

Relative context

Netherlands in Context

See how Netherlands’s wage and selected price level compare with the OECD median and the United States.

Average Annual Wage

Netherlands$80,136

OECD Median$60,690

United States$86,977

Selected Price Level

Netherlands78.40

OECD Median67.25

United States100

Read the placement

Netherlands’s 2025 PPP-adjusted annual wage is 32.0% above the OECD median. Its 2024 Overall price index of 78.4 is 21.6% below the U.S. benchmark, meaning that it combines a higher wage with a lower price level in this dataset. Wage and price observations refer to separately labelled years and should not be read as a household affordability score.

Country note

Understanding Wages and Prices in Netherlands

Netherlands is shown with its current common-year wage and a separate price-year label. The chart exposes the selected historical span without interpolation, while the page avoids converting a measured change into a causal story.

The highest displayed category indices for Netherlands are Transport at 119.00, Restaurants at 99.20, and Recreation at 90.00, while the overall index remains below the United States reference. Those measures describe relative prices, not an estimate of a household budget or a recommendation about where to live.