Country

Netherlands

Full labour cost: €47.90 an hour (2025). Gross wages by occupation below are from 2022.

Occupation group	€ per hour
Professionals (ISCO 2)	€28.56
Technicians and associate professionals (ISCO 3)	€22.98
Clerical support workers (ISCO 4)	€18.73
Service and sales workers (ISCO 5)	€15.10

€47.90 / hour, 2025

Eurostat, Labour cost levels by NACE Rev. 2 activity (lc_lci_lev) (doi:10.2908/LC_LCI_LEV). All economy except agriculture and public administration; wages plus employer costs.

EU average: €34.90 (2025).

Tasks in Netherlands

Task	Person	Agent + check	Person ÷ agent
Reply to a customer support email	€2.50	€0.34	7.4×
Answer a customer chat	€1.26	€0.15	8.3×
Enter a supplier invoice	€1.56	€0.17	9×
Check an expense claim	€1.25	€0.18	7.1×
Reconcile 50 bank lines	€9.37	€1.32	7.1×
Triage 20 shared-inbox emails	€3.12	€0.36	8.7×
Write minutes for a 30-minute meeting	€7.80	€1.30	6×
Clean a 200-row contact list	€9.37	€1.39	6.7×
Research one B2B lead	€7.66	€1.32	5.8×
Log a 15-minute sales call	€3.83	€0.41	9.3×
Screen one CV	€2.30	€0.40	5.8×
Draft a social media post	€5.75	€0.78	7.4×
Write a help-centre article	€15.32	€2.34	6.6×
Write a product description	€9.52	€1.45	6.6×
Translate one page	€23.80	€4.79	5×
Write a job ad	€14.28	€2.41	5.9×
Summarise a 10-page contract	€28.56	€4.81	5.9×
Triage a bug report	€7.14	€1.49	4.8×
Review a small pull request	€14.28	€2.45	5.8×
Write a SQL report query	€14.28	€2.43	5.9×

Person = estimated minutes × the occupation wage. Agent = Claude Sonnet 5.5 tokens + estimated human check. Method