Amsterdam
MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified
Stays MEDIUM 2026-04-29 (Round I verification pass): Tier-1 Dutch government source for the minimum wage rate (government.nl), and a tier-1 judicial precedent (Dutch Supreme Court 2023 Deliveroo ruling). However, MEDIUM rather than HIGH because: (1) the URL has not been live-fetched and content-verified for the specific €14.71 rate this round; (2) Dutch platform delivery work is dominated by Thuisbezorgd which generally pays at or above minimum wage, but smaller platforms operate self-employment models and the false-self-employment enforcement (DBA Act, post-2025) is still in soft-landing mode; (3) no single source publishes an Amsterdam-specific delivery hourly rate. Promotion to HIGH would require a live-verified Dutch government wage statistic for platform delivery workers specifically, OR live-fetched Thuisbezorgd courier recruitment page confirming the cited rate.
Only HIGH-confidence cities carry a full verification audit. See the methodology for what each tier means.
Earnings (USD per hour)
Source: Netherlands statutory hourly minimum wage (Jan 1, 2026 €14.71/hr) + Dutch Supreme Court Deliveroo ruling (March 2023)
What would you take home in Amsterdam?
Take-home, weekly
$425
Take-home, monthly
$1,842
Gross, weekly
$472
Gross, monthly
$2,046
With a 1BR apartment outside the city centre at $1837/mo, rent eats most of your take-home (100% of monthly net).
Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.
Cost of living vs. earnings
That works out to roughly 41 hours per week. Rent at $1,837 per month is 67 percent of gross monthly earnings, which puts a Amsterdam delivery driver in HUD's “severely cost-burdened” band by the federal definition (over 30 percent of gross income on housing). Measured against net take-home pay, which is what a worker actually has available to spend, the same rent is 75 percent. Affordable rent at this earnings rate, defined by HUD as no more than 30 percent of gross income, would be around $820 per month. Across the 46 cities in the dataset, Amsterdam ranks 26th for hours needed to cover rent, where lower is better.
Pay vs. local labour market
Gross hourly is 72% of local minimum wage, 46% of local median.
View Amsterdam on the interactive map
See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.
Primary earnings source: www.government.nl/topics/minimum-wage/minimum-wage-amounts