@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.

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?

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.

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.

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!?