{"id":163037,"date":"2024-01-17T15:10:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=163037"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:27:07","slug":"average-earnings-higher-in-universities-of-applied-sciences-than-at-research-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2024\/01\/17\/average-earnings-higher-in-universities-of-applied-sciences-than-at-research-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Average earnings higher in universities of applied sciences than at research universities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staff tend to earn more at universities of applied sciences than at research universities, based on a comparison of average salaries. Research indicates that younger employees generally receive lower pay.<\/p>\n

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What are hourly wage rates in the public sector, including bonus, holiday pay, allowances and overtime? The Ministry of the Interior commissioned SEO Amsterdam Economics to conduct a survey<\/a> of the salaries paid in fourteen public and semi-public sectors and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The high salaries at universities of applied sciences stand out in particular. Apart from employees in the judiciary, staff at universities of applied sciences are the best-paid public sector workers in the Netherlands, with an average gross hourly wage of 40.81 euros. This compares with 36.91 euros per hour at research universities.<\/p>\n

This relates to the average salary, across all positions from reception staff to professors and from librarians to lecturers. The figures for higher academic education also include PhD students, for example, who have comparatively modest incomes.<\/p>\n\n\t

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