{"id":857,"date":"2019-12-04T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T12:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/uncategorized\/looncriterium-kennismigranten-voor-2020\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T09:33:39","slug":"wage-criterion-for-knowledge-migrants-by-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/looncriterium-kennismigranten-voor-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Wage criterion for knowledge migrants by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7311\" src=\"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/20191204_Kennismigranten.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"632\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dutch companies are constantly looking for qualified staff. Often, these people are found abroad. These knowledge migrants (or labour migrants) must meet a salary criterion to be allowed to work in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<h4>EEA<\/h4>\n<p>Knowledge and labour migrants do not need permits to work in the Netherlands when they are from an EEA country. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one of the member states of the European Union;<\/li>\n<li>Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland or Switzerland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These people only need a valid passport or valid European Identity Card to work in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<h4>Outside Europe<\/h4>\n<p>Knowledge and labour migrants from a country other than those mentioned above are allowed to work in the Netherlands if they have a:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provisional residence authorisation (a 90-day visa);<\/li>\n<li>residence permit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And they should have a <strong>referent<\/strong> have. To this end, the employer may be required by the <a href=\"https:\/\/ind.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IND<\/a> (Immigration and Naturalisation Service, part of the Ministry of Justice and Security) as an authorised sponsor.<\/p>\n<h4>Minimum salary<\/h4>\n<p>To obtain a residence permit, the migrant must receive a minimum salary. This minimum salary must be gross per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance) in 2020:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For knowledge migrants under 30 years of age: \u20ac3,381.00;<\/li>\n<li>For knowledge migrants aged 30 yara and above: \u20ac4,612.00;<\/li>\n<li>for redent students graduating in the Netherlands: \u20ac2,423.00.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This remuneration must be received by the knowledge migrant monthly in a bank account in his or her name.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these categories, there are standard amounts for various specific situations. See the website of the <a href=\"https:\/\/ind.nl\/Paginas\/normbedragen-inkomenseis.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IND<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>30% control<\/h4>\n<p>For tax purposes, knowledge and labour migrants can qualify as extraterritorial employees. Extraterritorial expenses can be reimbursed to these employees free of wage and income tax. In practice, this is usually done in the form of the 30% scheme. The tax-free reimbursement may then, without having to substantiate the actual extraterritorial costs, amount to a maximum of 30% of the remuneration.<\/p>\n<p>One of the conditions for the application of the 30% scheme is that the incoming employee has a specific expertise, which is scarce in the Dutch labour market. This is deemed to be the case when the employee's gross annual salary is \u20ac38,326 (or more). A lower amount applies to employees under the age of 30 who have obtained an academic degree: \u20ac29,149.<\/p>\n<p>The duration of the 30% scheme has been shortened to 5 years since 2019. 30% schemes running on 1 January 2019 will be subject to a transition period, ending no later than 31 December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nederlandse bedrijven zijn doorlopend op zoek naar gekwalificeerd personeel. Vaak worden deze mensen gevonden int het buitenland. Deze kennismigranten (of arbeidsmigranten) moeten voldoen aan een looncriterium om in Nederland te mogen werken. EER Kennis- en arbeidsmigranten hebben geen vergunningen nodig om in Nederland te mogen werken wanneer ze afkomstig zijn uit een EER-land. Dat zijn: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwg.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}