Netherlands: average working hours by cao-sector 2018

This statistic displays the average working hours in the Netherlands in 2018, by cao-sector. As of 2018, employees in private companies worked the largest number of hours per working year, whereas employees in the government sector worked the largest number of hours per job per year. Employees in the government sector worked roughly 1,390 hours per job per year on average, while private sector employees worked an average of 1,781 hours per working year.

Average working hours in the Netherlands in 2018, by cao-sector*

Characteristic	Private companies	Subsidised corporations	Government
Per job per week including overtime	29.8	25.4	30.4
Per job per week excluding overtime	29.3	25.4	30.4
Per job per year	1,335	1,140	1,385
Per working year	1,781	1,643	1,688

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October 2019

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Netherlands

Survey time period

2018

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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."

* The source explains that "all enterprises and institutions active in the Netherlands are included in a collective labour agreement (CAO in Dutch) sector. The division into CAO sectors is based on the position of employees in the negotiations on working conditions. There are three collective labour agreement sectors: private enterprises, government and subsidised corporations."

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