Netherlands: average working hours, by company size 2022

This statistic displays the average working hours in the Netherlands in 2022, by company size. As of 2022, on average, employees of companies with ten to 100 employees worked the largest number of hours per job per year. Employees of medium sized companies worked an average of 1,400 hours per job per year, whereas employees of small companies with up to ten employees worked the lowest number of hours per job in 2022.

Average working hours in the Netherlands in 2022, by company size

Characteristic	0 to 10 employees	10 to 100 employees	100 or more employees
Per job per week including overtime	26.6	30.3	29.8
Per job per week excluding overtime	26.5	29.9	29.5
Per job per year	1,219	1,372	1,352
Per working year	1,802	1,794	1,745

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Release date

October 2023

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Netherlands

Survey time period

2022

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The source adds the following explanation: "The number of hours someone works in a normal or average working week. There is a distinction between weekly working hours and yearly working hours. Weekly working hours are calculated by the average hours paid for a job divided by 52. The hours paid include hours leave, paid overtime hours and paid sick and study leave, but exclude reduction of working hours. Also the weekly working hours without overtime is been determined.

The yearly working hours of a job is the average hours paid for a job a year excluded overtime hours and leave hours through holiday, reduction of working hours and general recognized feast-days. For the yearly working hours of a year of employment this yearly average is determined for a year of employment instead for a job."

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