Timeline for What is my net salary on a gross salary of 3,000 EUR in Holland? Can I live on that in Amsterdam?
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| Jul 11, 2016 at 18:41 | comment | added | RemcoGerlich | @RobdeJonge: I just mean that Amsterdam is more expensive than the rest of the country, so being modal nationally probably means you're below modal in Amsterdam. | |
| Jul 11, 2016 at 15:04 | comment | added | Rob de Jonge | @RemcoGerlich depends on your definition of living well, as has been covered numerous times. I lived in Amsterdam below modal and I lived in Amsterdam making double modal. Different lives. All about your own decisions. | |
| Jul 11, 2016 at 14:57 | comment | added | RemcoGerlich | Just that it's the modal income doesn't automatically mean that you can live well on it 1) on your own and 2) in Amsterdam. | |
| Jul 9, 2016 at 18:55 | comment | added | Gala | @phoog I have some trouble finding out, it turns out this “modaal inkomen” isn't any of these but an abstraction computed as a percentage of the mean income!? Also most statistics are about disposable income per household, not pre-tax salaries. The median disposable income per household (without any correction for the size of the household) was 28.7k in 2014, the average 34.2k. That would be the OP's salary below the median (not so however if you apply the correction for household size). | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 11:02 | comment | added | phoog | @Gala so do we know whether 36K is the median or the modal figure, orhow different the median and the mode are in this case? | |
| Jul 8, 2016 at 8:38 | comment | added | Gala | @phoog Yes, that's the definition of the median but modaal really means mode (and as I wrote earlier, with a right-skewed distributions like income, you would expect the median to be higher and the arithmetic mean to be higher still). Median is mediaan in Dutch. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 4:55 | comment | added | phoog | @Gala, RobdeJonge: if modaal means that 50% have more and 50% have less, then the English translation is median. | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 19:47 | comment | added | Gala | @AnastasieLaurent & RobdeJonge The English term for modaal is modal (from the statistical mode) but that's not what I was confused about. The €27000 figure is average income per capita (counting other type of income but also children and dependents in the denominator), €36000 is the modal salary (counting only people who are employed). Either way, Rob is right it's a “normal” salary, not particularly high but many people live on that or less so you can have a decent life with it (meaning rent, going out from time to time, a vacation per year but not fancy restaurants and opera every week). | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 9:20 | comment | added | Rob de Jonge | How much you need, as mentioned, depends on your lifestyle choices. I think you can assume to have an "average" life on this salary! If half the country can make due on less, then for sure you can have an ok life on this salary? | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 9:13 | comment | added | Anastasie Laurent | @RobdeJonge thank you, i got the idea, but i am still confused, i see that you all did what you could to help me, but i am still not able to figure out how much i need per month, and how much exactly my net salary will be. i will contact the company again. | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 8:24 | comment | added | Rob de Jonge | It's about "modaal". I don't know how that compares to the average. And I don't know the English term for modaal :) in NL, "modaal" is what gets used rather than average. Having a modaal income means half of the population makes more than you and half of the population makes less than you. | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 8:14 | comment | added | Anastasie Laurent | so what did you sum up guys? is my salary above the average ? | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 7:39 | comment | added | Relaxed | @RobdeJonge OK, thanks! I understand my confusion now: I was looking at the average income per capita, not the modal salary. | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 7:38 | comment | added | Rob de Jonge | Like I said, there might be benefits and further charges which may apply. I left over a decade ago. I got the modaal inkomen for 2016 from nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modaal_inkomen. | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 7:35 | comment | added | Anastasie Laurent | @RobdeJonge thanks for answering, i am optimistic about the salary because even if it is not too much, but saving 10% of it in NL is better than saving 10% of the medium incom in another country, such as Spain or Italy. In this 10% in NL, i may be able to have a holiday in another country. If I am wrong, let me know please. I'm just afraid of the accomodation, for the food i can cook and manage myself, but i need a funished, good (more or less) room | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 7:34 | comment | added | Relaxed | The mode and median are not the same and a quick search yesterday suggested this salary was above the average (which is typically higher than either the mode and median in this case). It's possible I got my stats wrong, where did you find yours? Also your calculation is off, you're forgetting the tax credits (at least the Algemene heffingskorting and the Arbeidskorting should apply). | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 7:30 | comment | added | Rob de Jonge | There might be tax breaks I did not factor in. As I said, these are just the rates I found online and other aspects will impact. Surely your prospective employer would be able to tell you the net transfer every month?! I left NL over 10 years ago. I'm not particularly qualified to tell you how far such a salary takes you. But simply by it being "the national median salary" I would imagine it's possible!? | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 7:26 | comment | added | Anastasie Laurent | thank you, you are telling me that the net salary will be 1800 while the other user said a number betwee 2200 and 2500, the difference between you two is too big. Plus, do you thing 1800 is enough in Amsterdam please? i have to rent a room myself. i am a very active person for concerts, operas, parties .... | |
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