the Netherlands · Income · 2023 data
Am I rich in the Netherlands?
Enter your household income after tax. See your percentile — and what it actually means.
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Data: Eurostat — Distribution of income by quantiles (ilc_di01) and Mean/median income (ilc_di03) · income year 2023, survey wave 2024
Income distribution in the Netherlands
Each bar is a slice of the Netherlands households. The cyan marker shows where you sit; the threshold flags below mark the median, top 10% and top 1%.
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What the numbers actually say
Useful framings, not slogans.
To join the top 10%, earn about 1.7× the median.
About 1.7× the typical household in the Netherlands.
60% of the Netherlands lives between € 22.075 and € 44.969.
If you're in this band, you're 'normal' — by the data.
The top 1% earn 3.2× the typical household.
It's a gulf, not a gap.
Cross € 64.732 and you've outearned 95% of the Netherlands.
The top 5% starts here.
The average (€ 35.477) sits well above the median.
A few very high earners pull the mean up — the median is the truer middle.
A top-10% household earns 3.0× the bottom 10%.
The full spread of the Netherlands, in one number.
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