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Finance Manager salary & hiring benchmark
Scale-ups hiring their first Finance Manager compete directly with corporates — flexibility and equity, not base, close the gap.
- Base salary
- €75K – €105K
- On-target earnings
- No variable
- Demand
- High
- Time to hire
- 48 days
- Briefing to signed offer
The band, in detail
What a Finance Manager earns in the Netherlands
25th percentile
€75K
Lower quartile of offers
Median
€88K
Where most offers land
75th percentile
€105K
Top quartile of offers
Year on year
+5% vs 2025
Median base movement
Band by seniority
- Finance Manager€75K – €95K
- Head of Finance€95K – €120K
- CFO (scale-up)€120K – €160K
Base excl. bonus. Head of Finance / CFO-track roles run above €120K.
- Region
- Amsterdam / Randstad +9% vs national median · rest of the Netherlands −7% vs national median
- Variable pay
- 10–20% bonus, plus equity in VC-backed companies
- Secondary benefits
- Lease car, 30 leave days, pension and insurance package
- What moves the offer
- A funding round or systems migration you ran end-to-end; scale-ups close the base gap with equity.
What strong candidates bring
The skills that decide shortlists for this role right now — in the order hiring managers weight them.
- 01Team leadership and finance process ownership
- 02Cash flow, treasury and working capital
- 03Board and investor reporting
- 04Systems migration and process automation
- 05RA / RC or equivalent qualification
Profile
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 7 – 12 years
- Market
- Netherlands / Annual gross base
- Benchmarked by
- Numio
Methodology
Frontrunners Group label networks + public NL market data · Q1–Q3 2026 · 800+ companies, Netherlands. Annual gross base salary, full-time, excluding 8% holiday allowance, bonus, commission and equity. Indicative — not a quote for a specific role.
Updated September 2026
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