iPhone 18 Pro €1,479
62 hours of work
The first week of January, and the next until Wednesday 3 pm.
Eighth of 28. In Switzerland the same phone takes 30 hours; in Türkiye, 487.
The Hours Index · Netherlands mist.huliwood.com
Three things, in the Netherlands
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I take home a year.
That is the average worker's, after tax. Put in yours for a year, bonuses and extra months' pay included, and the card and the list redo the sums. It stays on this page.
The sums
The average full-time worker in the Netherlands earns €69,028 a year before tax and takes home €49,794 after income tax and social security contributions (OECD, 2025, a single worker without children). Divided by 2,080 working hours, an hour of work pays €23.94.
An iPhone 18 Pro: €1,479 ÷ €23.94 = 62 hours. The first week of January, and the next until Wednesday 3 pm.
A Tesla Model Y: €39,990 ÷ €23.94 = 1,670 hours. January to mid October.
A Big Mac: €6.26 ÷ €23.94 = 0.26 hours, or 16 minutes.
The Tesla: with €687 of BPM, the Dutch tax on cars. Tesla's Dutch site shows €40,990: this price plus €977.50 for destination and documentation and a €22.50 recycling fee. Hours count 52 weeks of 40, whatever people in the Netherlands actually work. More in what the index leaves out.
Against the other 37
iPhone 18 Pro eighth of 28
- 1Switzerland CHF 1,199 30 hours
- 4 more
- 6Norway NOK 15,990 58 hours
- 6United Kingdom £1,199 58 hours
- 8Netherlands €1,479 62 hours
- 9Denmark DKK 10,999 66 hours
- 10Ireland €1,489 69 hours
- 17 more
- 28Türkiye (see the note) ₺137,999 487 hours
Tesla Model Y eighth of 37
- 1Switzerland CHF 40,990 1,033 hours
- 4 more
- 6Norway NOK 442,857.50 1,599 hours
- 7Luxembourg €40,990 1,611 hours
- 8Netherlands €39,990 1,670 hours
- 9Denmark DKK 300,310 1,798 hours
- 10United Kingdom £41,000 1,982 hours
- 26 more
- 37Mexico MX$799,000 8,716 hours
Big Mac joint seventh of 36
- 1Switzerland CHF 7.30 11 minutes
- 3 more
- 5Canada C$8.17 15 minutes
- 5South Korea ₩5,700 15 minutes
- 7Netherlands €6.26 16 minutes
- 7United Kingdom £5.49 16 minutes
- 9Austria €5.63 17 minutes
- 26 more
- 36Colombia (see the note) COP 25,900 102 minutes
Sources
Pay: OECD, Taxing Wages 2026: net take-home pay of a single worker without children on 100% of the average wage, 2025 (the OECD's own estimate, as for most countries).
Prices, checked 29 September 2026: Apple, the iPhone 18 Pro with 256 GB; Tesla, the cheapest Model Y on sale; The Economist, the Big Mac index, July 2026 (data, CC BY 4.0).