Education and Teaching salaries in Netherlands
The median lead Education and Teaching salary in Netherlands is €84,900 per year, with the market band from €71,400 to €84,900 (opendata.cbs.nl, 2026-08-30).
By seniority
lead (Medium quality data)
- P25
- €71,400
- Median
- €84,900
- per month
- €7,075
About €7,075 per month at the median.
Lead (associate professor/senior lecturer band) proxied by p50-p75 of CBS 0111 (2024): hourly 40.1-47.7, so EUR 71,400-84,900. Upper bound above p75 not published (full professor scale tops higher).
senior (High quality data)
- P25
- €48,400
- Median
- €71,400
- P75
- €84,900
- per month
- €5,950
About €5,950 per month at the median.
CBS 86355NED, SBC 0111 'Docenten hoger onderwijs en hogeschooldocenten' (university and HBO lecturers), 2024 definitive (2025 suppressed), n approx 73,000. Hourly 27.2/40.1/47.7 x1,780h. Secondary teachers (0113, n approx 104k): 27.5/35.4/41.5, so EUR 49,000/63,000/73,900; primary teachers (0114, n approx 142k): 26.0/33.0/37.2. Excl. 8% holiday allowance.
Sources for these numbers
- https://opendata.cbs.nl/ODataApi/odata/86355NED/TypedDataSet
- https://opendata.cbs.nl/#/CBS/nl/dataset/86355NED/table
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