{"id":4450,"date":"2026-05-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"im-67173"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"minimum-hourly-wage-to-rise-to-e1499-from-1-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/minimumuurloon-per-1-juli-2026-naar-e-1499\/","title":{"rendered":"Minimum hourly wage to rise to \u20ac14.99 from 1 July 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The amounts set out in the Minimum Wage and Minimum Holiday Pay Act are revised every six months. As of 1 July 2026, the minimum hourly wage for anyone aged 21 or over will be \u20ac14.99.<\/p>\n

Minimum youth wage<\/h4>\n

For people under the age of 21, rates derived from the statutory minimum hourly wage apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Age<\/th>\nStaffeling<\/th>\nPer hour<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\n

21 years and over<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

100,0%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u20ac14.99<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

20 years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

80,0%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u20ac11.99<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

19 years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

60,0%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u20ac8.99<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

18 years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

50,0%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u20ac7.50<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

17 years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

39,5%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u20ac5.92<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

16 years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

34,5%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u20ac5.17<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

15 years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

30,0%<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

\u20ac4.50<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Bbl<\/h4>\n

For employees working under an employment contract within the work-based learning programme (BBL), different rates apply to those aged between 18 and 20 inclusive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Age<\/th>\nStaffeling<\/th>\nPer hour<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
\n

 20 years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

 61,5% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

 \u20ac9.22 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

 19 years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

 52,5% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

 \u20ac7.87 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\n

 18 years<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

 45,5% <\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

 \u20ac6.82 <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Reference monthly salary<\/h4>\n

The reference monthly wage, which is used to determine the level and indexation of various benefits, will be \u20ac2,337.00 gross per month with effect from 1 July 2026.<\/p>\n

Source: Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment | legislative amendment | 23 April 2026<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The amounts set out in the Minimum Wage and Minimum Holiday Pay Act are revised every six months. With effect from 1<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}