I get about 60K per year including a bonus, so that's an estimate. What I didn't factor in is vacation and sick leave. Vacation is 6 weeks. Sick leave, well it'

I get about 60K per year including a bonus, so that's an estimate. What I didn't factor in is vacation and sick leave. Vacation is 6 weeks. Sick leave, well it's the Netherlands so one could be sick for 2 years. If a freelancer would pay for an equivalent insurrance would cost about 500 euro's or a bit lower (so 6K per year). So to make it more equivalent, I'm assuming 2 weeks of being ill, 6 weeks of vacation, so 10 months of actual work which is 1680 hours (168 hours per month). 1680 hours at 150 euro's is 252000 euro's. Deduct the 6000 euro's insurrance off of it and you get 246000 euro's. So eyeballing this if I want to steelman, it'd be: 200K for the freelancers, and an employee costs 100K. As another comment mentioned: it's fair and/or makes sense when a freelancer doesn't have work all the time, but when the work keeps rolling in it's at the very least a 2x, of which you get to keep more as well as I haven't spoken about deducting all kinds of stuff (laptop, phone, etc.).