Income distribution of households; National Accounts

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Income distribution of households; National Accounts
Characteristics of households Periods Total amount Resources Compensation of employees Wages and salaries (million euros) Total amount Resources Compensation of employees Employers' social contributions (million euros) Total amount Resources Social contributions and benefits Total (million euros) Total amount Resources Social contributions and benefits Employers' imputed social contributions (million euros) Total amount Resources Social contributions and benefits Social benefits in cash Total (million euros) Total amount Resources Social contributions and benefits Social benefits in cash Social sec. non-pension benefits in cash (million euros) Total amount Resources Social contributions and benefits Social benefits in cash Other social insurance benefits (million euros) Total amount Resources Social contributions and benefits Social benefits in cash Social assistance benefits in cash (million euros) Total amount Resources Social transfers in kind (million euros) Total amount Uses Current taxes on income and wealth Total (million euros) Total amount Uses Current taxes on income and wealth Current taxes on income (million euros) Total amount Uses Current taxes on income and wealth Other current taxes (million euros) Total amount Uses Social contributions and benefits Total (million euros) Total amount Uses Social contributions and benefits Other social insurance benefits (million euros)
Total 2021* 319,313 89,244 148,103 348 147,755 59,357 62,621 25,777 158,566 80,103 71,994 8,109 197,450 348
Disposable income: 1st 20%-group 2021* 5,783 1,737 23,670 6 23,664 10,533 1,994 11,137 31,483 4,733 3,480 1,253 9,883 6
Disposable income: 2nd 20%-group 2021* 23,102 7,133 33,428 13 33,415 18,024 9,265 6,126 35,306 4,003 2,503 1,500 19,202 13
Disposable income: 3rd 20%-group 2021* 55,342 16,947 32,053 25 32,028 13,710 14,417 3,901 33,060 8,095 6,403 1,692 36,725 25
Disposable income: 4th 20%-group 2021* 90,979 27,206 30,296 49 30,247 9,957 17,514 2,776 31,047 15,314 13,514 1,800 55,269 49
Disposable income: 5th 20%-group 2021* 144,107 36,221 28,656 255 28,401 7,133 19,431 1,837 27,670 47,958 46,094 1,864 76,371 255
Type: Single man 2021* 31,980 9,010 18,219 35 18,184 7,539 6,880 3,765 12,564 8,469 7,470 999 20,744 35
Type: Single woman 2021* 19,490 5,899 25,831 14 25,817 13,047 9,374 3,396 22,406 5,637 4,725 912 16,785 14
Type: One-parent family 2021* 18,114 5,273 9,644 17 9,627 2,179 2,150 5,298 13,389 3,463 2,935 528 10,730 17
Type: Couple, with child(ren) 2021* 157,547 43,017 26,484 179 26,305 6,712 11,040 8,553 59,713 35,056 32,379 2,677 81,049 179
Type: Couple, no children 2021* 81,328 22,970 59,526 87 59,439 26,395 30,867 2,177 38,539 24,872 22,218 2,654 60,893 87
Other types of households 2021* 10,854 3,075 8,399 16 8,383 3,485 2,310 2,588 11,955 2,606 2,267 339 7,249 16
Source of income: mixed income 2021* 11,972 3,117 6,938 273 6,665 2,641 2,147 1,877 15,129 15,512 14,669 843 14,074 273
Source of income: compensation of employ 2021* 301,679 84,667 39,799 62 39,737 9,105 21,616 9,016 75,655 53,618 49,099 4,519 152,093 62
Source of income: old age benefits 2021* 2,576 556 77,473 9 77,464 38,072 37,700 1,692 50,635 8,734 6,853 1,881 22,700 9
Source of income: other 2021* 3,086 904 23,893 4 23,889 9,539 1,158 13,192 17,147 2,239 1,373 866 8,583 4
Main earner: to 35 years 2021* 63,132 19,317 11,254 52 11,202 1,705 3,761 5,736 22,144 9,444 7,957 1,487 32,513 52
Main earner: 35 to 50 years 2021* 116,358 32,075 21,239 129 21,110 4,910 7,045 9,155 44,008 25,245 23,162 2,083 58,601 129
Main earner: 50 to 65 years 2021* 130,410 35,700 33,842 138 33,704 11,295 13,851 8,558 37,748 32,221 29,781 2,440 79,448 138
Main earner: 65 years or older 2021* 9,413 2,152 81,768 29 81,739 41,447 37,964 2,328 54,666 13,193 11,094 2,099 26,888 29
Home ownership: Owner-occupied home 2021* 245,671 67,329 89,224 270 88,954 33,536 47,701 7,717 92,350 65,712 60,741 4,971 147,491 270
Home ownership: Rent with rent subsidy 2021* 10,076 3,100 26,249 12 26,237 11,226 2,848 12,163 29,028 1,979 823 1,156 9,955 12
Home ownership: Rent: no rent subsidy 2021* 61,538 18,255 28,120 65 28,055 12,681 11,112 4,262 30,306 11,713 9,892 1,821 38,165 65
Home ownership: Other 2021* 2,028 560 4,510 1 4,509 1,914 960 1,635 6,882 699 538 161 1,839 1
Net worth: 1st 20%-group 2021* 27,019 8,145 17,242 4 17,238 5,131 1,737 10,370 26,346 4,022 2,812 1,210 15,406 4
Net worth: 2nd 20%-group 2021* 41,477 12,486 24,591 16 24,575 12,457 5,378 6,740 30,117 5,926 4,503 1,423 24,559 16
Net worth: 3rd 20%-group 2021* 68,745 20,533 24,908 46 24,862 12,038 9,198 3,626 31,696 10,527 8,831 1,696 39,636 46
Net worth: 4th 20%-group 2021* 80,653 23,075 31,496 86 31,410 14,063 14,416 2,931 35,403 16,179 14,341 1,838 48,950 86
Net worth: 5th 20%-group 2021* 101,419 25,005 49,866 196 49,670 15,668 31,892 2,110 35,004 43,449 41,507 1,942 68,899 196
Source: CBS.
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This table describes the income distribution of the sector households in the national accounts over different household groups. Households are identified by main source of income, living situation, household composition, age classes of the head of the household, income class by 20% groups, and net worth class by 20% groups.

Data available from: 2015.

Status of the figures:
All data are provisional.

Changes as of October 19th 2023:
The figures of 2015-2020 are revised, because national accounts figures are changed due to the revision policy of Statistics Netherlands. Results for 2021 are added to the table.

When will new figures be published?
New figures will be released in October 2024.

Description topics

Total amount
Resources
Resources are transactions which add to the economic value of sectors.
Compensation of employees
The compensation of employees is the total remuneration, in cash or in kind, payable by an employer to an employee in return for work done by the latter during an accounting period. The compensation of employees is equal to the sum of wages and salaries and employers' social contributions.
Wages and salaries
Wages and salaries are the remunerations an employee receives in return for work done during an accounting period. Wages and salaries include social contributions, income taxes and other payments payable by the employee, including those withheld by the employer and paid directly to social insurance schemes, tax authorities etc. on behalf of the employee. The most important form of wages and salaries is wages in cash (including withheld income taxes and social contributions). Wages in cash are composed of regular gross wages, standard extra allowances (for instance for hazardous work), bonuses, overtime pay, tips and compensation for costs related to employment (for instance refunds of fares to and from work). Bonuses include holiday pay, tantième, gratifications, profit shares and a thirteenth or fourteenth month. Wages in kind occur if an employee benefits from his or her job besides being paid wages. Examples of payment in kind are private use of a company car, free housing, free food, lower interest rates on mortgages, free or cheap use of the company's products or services, and company supplied or subsidized child care.
Employers' social contributions
Employers' social contributions are social contributions payable by employers to social security schemes or other employment-related social insurance schemes to secure social benefits for their employees. Employer's social contributions may be either actual or imputed. As set out by the ESA 2010, pay over periods in which no work is done due to illness or bad weather is registered as part of employers' social contributions.
Social contributions and benefits
Social contributions and benefits are transfers to households, in cash or in kind, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, made through collectively organized schemes, or outside such schemes by government units and NPISHs; they include payments from general government to producers which individually benefit households and which are made in the context of social risks or needs.
Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.
Total
Employers' imputed social contributions
Imputed social contributions represent the counterpart to the 'unfunded employee social benefits' (less any employees' social contributions) paid directly by employers to their (former) employees. It is necessary to introduce this imputation because the direct payments are recorded twice. Firstly they are recorded as employers' social contributions (part of the compensation of employees). Secondly they are recorded as social benefits.
Social benefits in cash
Social benefits other than social transfers in kind is made up of three sub-headings:
- social security benefits in cash
- other social insurance benefits
- social assistance benefits in cash.
Total
Social sec. non-pension benefits in cash
Social security non-pension benefits in cash.
Other social insurance benefits
Other private social insurance benefits are benefits paid by employers out of special reserves, which are segregated from their other reserves.
Social assistance benefits in cash
Social assistance benefits are payments of the central and local government to households, for which no quid pro quo by the beneficiary is expected. These benefits are based on a number of Dutch laws, such as the Act on Labor and Social Assistance.
Social transfers in kind
Social transfers in kind consist of individual goods and services provided for free or at prices that are not economically significant to individual households by government units and NPISHs, whether purchased on the market or produced as non-market output by government units or NPISHs. They are financed out of taxation, other government income or social security contributions, or out of donations and property income in the case of NPISHs.
Uses
Uses are transactions appear which deduces the economic value of sectors.
Current taxes on income and wealth
Current taxes on income and wealth of corporations consist of corporation tax and dividend tax. These taxes are based on the profits of corporations.
Current taxes on income and wealth of households include all taxes, which are periodically imposed on income and wealth, such as the income tax, the wage tax and the tax on net wealth of individuals. Non-periodical levies, such as inheritance tax are defined as capital transfers. Several types of taxes are simultaneously seen as taxes on production and imports when imposed on producers and as taxes on income and wealth when imposed on consumers. For instance, motor vehicle tax is a tax on production when it is imposed on company cars and it is a tax on income and wealth and imports when it is imposed on cars for private use.
The treatment of dividend tax results from the recording of dividends. Because dividends are recorded gross, i.e. before deduction of dividend tax, dividend tax is in all cases recorded at the receiving sector. The same applies for the dividend tax to and from the rest of the world.
Total
Current taxes on income
Tax levied on income. These include: corporate income tax, payroll tax, income tax, dividend tax, gambling tax and one-time revenue in connection with the liquidation of holding companies.
Other current taxes
Tax levied on capital (such as bank balances, savings and investments). The amount to be paid depends on the volume of the capital.
Social contributions and benefits
Social contributions and benefits are transfers to households, in cash or in kind, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, made through collectively organized schemes, or outside such schemes by government units and NPISHs; they include payments from general government to producers which individually benefit households and which are made in the context of social risks or needs.
Social benefits are transfers to households, intended to relieve them from the financial burden of a number of risks or needs, such as sickness, invalidity, disability, old age, survivors and unemployment.
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Other social insurance benefits
Other private social insurance benefits are benefits paid by employers out of special reserves, which are segregated from their other reserves.