95Open vacancies per 100 unemployed
The labour market in the province of Limburg is about as tight as the Dutch average: there are 95 open vacancies for every 100 unemployed people in the province of Limburg, against 91 nationally (Q3 2026).
Median hourly wage
€17.30
The middle half of employees earns €14.40 to €19.20 gross an hour (Netherlands, 2025). +6.8% on 2024.
Estimated in Limburg
≈ 18,000
From the region's commercial workforce (2025). CBS counts regional employment per occupation class only.
Retail sales staff in the Netherlands
288,000
People working in 2025, -19% since 2018.
Unemployment in Limburg
3.7%
Q3 2026; the Netherlands: 4.1%.
Open vacancies in the province of Limburg
At the end of each quarter, all sectors.
Retail sales staff working in the Netherlands
People working in the occupation, per year.
Employers opened 15 vacancies for every 100 people working as commercial 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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