84Open vacancies per 100 unemployed
The labour market in the province of North Holland is less tight than the Dutch average: there are 84 open vacancies for every 100 unemployed people in the province of North Holland, against 91 nationally (Q3 2026).
Median hourly wage
€28.60
The middle half of employees earns €22.60 to €36.40 gross an hour (Netherlands, 2025). +3.2% on 2024.
Estimated in Amsterdam
≈ 9,400
From the region's business and administrative workforce (2025). CBS counts regional employment per occupation class only.
Bookkeepers in the Netherlands
157,000
People working in 2025, +37% since 2018.
Unemployment in Amsterdam
6.2%
Q3 2026; the Netherlands: 4.1%.
Open vacancies in the province of North Holland
At the end of each quarter, all sectors.
Bookkeepers working in the Netherlands
People working in the occupation, per year.
Employers opened 13 vacancies for every 100 people working as business and administrative staff in 2025, against 14 across all occupations.
New vacancies count replacements for people who leave as well as new jobs, so a high number means many employers are recruiting at once, not necessarily a shortage.
Figures from CBS (Statistics Netherlands) StatLine, published under CC BY 4.0, refreshed when CBS publishes:
The verdict compares the region's open vacancies per 100 unemployed people with the Dutch figure for the same quarter. CBS publishes vacancies per province, so a city uses its province. The estimate for a region spreads the national number of people in the occupation like the region's workforce in its occupation class. Figures CBS does not publish, because too few people were surveyed, are left out.
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