Netherlands Statutory minimum wage (wettelijk minimumuurloon)
Netherlands Statutory minimum wage (wettelijk minimumuurloon) is 14.99 EUR/hour, in force since 1 Jul 2026. It was 14.71 EUR/hour before that. Last checked against the official source on 26 Aug 2026.
Statutory minimum hourly wage for employees aged 21 and over, set under the Wet minimumloon en minimumvakantiebijslag and indexed twice yearly.
| Current value | 14.99 EUR/hour |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-07-01 |
| Official source | Regeling van de Minister van Sociale Zaken en Werkgelegenheid van 28 april 2026, nr. 2026-0000107275, tot indexatie van het wettelijk minimumloon en bekendmaking van het wettelijk minimumloon per 1 juli 2026 (Staatscourant 2026, nr. 16505), based on art. 14(2) and 14(10) Wet minimumloon en minimumvakantiebijslag |
| Last verified | 2026-08-26 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
€14.99 gross per hour for employees aged 21 and over, in force from 1 July 2026 — so this July revision IS already in force on the confirmation date. Verified directly against the Staatscourant text and the Rijksoverheid rate table on 2026-07-20. Raw indexation percentage 1.854% (contractual wage development 3.882% less 2.028%); the communicated uplift versus the 1 January 2026 rate of €14.71 is 1.90% once rounding to whole cents is applied. SINCE 1 JANUARY 2024 THERE IS NO STATUTORY MONTHLY, WEEKLY OR DAILY MINIMUM WAGE — the Wet invoering minimumuurloon abolished them and made the hourly wage the sole statutory floor, so a full-time monthly figure is no longer a legal quantity. The regulation does publish a reference monthly amount of €2,337.00 gross ('referentiemaandloon'), used only for derived statutory calculations (e.g. benefit indexation); it is NOT a minimum monthly wage an employer may pay against. Beware third-party sites quoting a 'monthly minimum wage' of around €2,478 derived from a 38-hour week — that is an arithmetic construction, not a legal amount. Youth minima are fixed percentages of the adult rate and per 1 July 2026 are, as published: 20 yrs €11.99 (80%), 19 yrs €8.99 (60%), 18 yrs €7.50 (50%), 17 yrs €5.92 (39.5%), 16 yrs €5.17 (34.5%), 15 yrs €4.50 (30%). All six were confirmed against the official table, not computed. The floor applies from age 15. Revision cadence is fixed by statute at 1 January and 1 July each year. Holiday allowance (vakantiebijslag) of at least 8% is payable on top and is not included in these figures. This series covers the European Netherlands; the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, Saba) have their own separate minimum wage regime. Access note: rijksoverheid.nl publishes the amounts in a clean table; the binding instrument is the Staatscourant regulation cited, which is Dutch-language only.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-01 | 14.71 | Rijksoverheid, Bedragen minimumloon 2026 (Ministerie van… |
| 2025-07-01 | 14.4 | Rijksoverheid, Bedragen minimumloon 2025 (Ministerie van… |
| 2025-01-01 | 14.06 | Rijksoverheid, Bedragen minimumloon 2025 (Ministerie van… |
| 2024-07-01 | 13.68 | Rijksoverheid, Bedragen minimumloon 2024 (Ministerie van… |
| 2024-01-01 | 13.27 | Rijksoverheid, Bedragen minimumloon 2024 (Ministerie van… |
Get it programmatically
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