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Contacts in North America

NFIA New York 212-246-1434
NFIA Atlanta 404-870-9125
NFIA Boston 617-426-9224
NFIA Chicago 312-616-8400
NFIA San Mateo 650-349-8848

Cost of Labor

Few places in Europe compare to the Netherlands for sheer volume of highly skilled, multilingual, business-savvy workers. Recent surveys ranked the Netherlands third for ready availability of skilled manpower in all of Europe. Salaries are competitive, too. For example, typical annual salaries of Netherlands-based sales managers (€ 72,000-74,000) are lower than those in Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK.

COUNTRY

LOCATION

Annual Gross
Salary
SALES MANAGER
(x1,000 Euro)

Annual Gross
Salary
SALES EMPLOYEE
(x1,000 Euro)

Belgium Brussels 89.8 39.3
Denmark Copenhagen 68.9 42.5
France Paris 74.7 37.0
  Lille 70.9 28.0
Germany Berlin 85.9 32.5
  Ruhr-Area 85.9 40.3
Ireland Dublin 61.1 27.5
Italy Rome 54.2 27.5
  Milan 54.2 27.5
Netherlands West Netherlands 74.2 32.5
  East Netherlands 72.2 29.5
Spain Madrid 58.4 27.5
  Barcelona 58.4 27.5
Sweden Stockholm 63.4 37.5
Switzerland Zürich 92.5 43.5
United Kingdom London 79.4 33.0
  Birmingham 75.4 30.0


Source: Economic Development Agencies, local recruitment agencies and HR managers, BCI 2005