Depends on what you define as a "company". For the last decade contracting/freelancing has been paying consistently the salary in the upper ranges discussed in

Depends on what you define as a "company". For the last decade contracting/freelancing has been paying consistently the salary in the upper ranges discussed in the above article, from my experience living in the NL. Taking a regular job, unless for big companies like booking etc. described in this articles, for most devs here would mean taking a pay cut up to 50% if not more compared to contracting. So yeah even if you want to get a steady job with tax cuts you get being a freelancer you can work half a year in the NL and in the end easily make more then a full year being employed. So in the end most of us have our own little lemon stands, because it just makes more sense.