Bulgaria vs Netherlands: Incidence of low and high pay — High pay Incidence

Bulgaria
29.9 Percentage of full-time employment
in 2024
Netherlands
16.85 Percentage of full-time employment
in 2024
Bulgaria rank
3rd
Netherlands rank
7th

Incidence of low and high pay — High pay Incidence over time

  • Bulgaria
  • Netherlands
0102030200220132024

How they compare

Bulgaria currently reports 29.9 Percentage of full-time employment against 16.85 Percentage of full-time employment in Netherlands, a difference of 13.05 Percentage of full-time employment.

That makes Bulgaria's figure about 1.8 times Netherlands's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 8 shared years of data; in 2002 it was Bulgaria ahead.

Bulgaria ranks 3rd and Netherlands ranks 7th of 32 countries.

Bulgaria has averaged higher in every one of the 3 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade Bulgaria Netherlands Difference Ahead
2000s 26.5 Percentage of full-time employment 22.5 Percentage of full-time employment 4 Percentage of full-time employment Bulgaria
2010s 27.67 Percentage of full-time employment 27.33 Percentage of full-time employment 0.3332 Percentage of full-time employment Bulgaria
2020s 29.64 Percentage of full-time employment 17.05 Percentage of full-time employment 12.59 Percentage of full-time employment Bulgaria

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher incidence of low and high pay — high pay incidence, Bulgaria or Netherlands?
Bulgaria, at 29.9 Percentage of full-time employment against 16.85 Percentage of full-time employment in Netherlands as of 2024.
What is the difference in incidence of low and high pay — high pay incidence between Bulgaria and Netherlands?
13.05 Percentage of full-time employment, with Bulgaria ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Bulgaria and Netherlands?
8 years are reported by both, from 2002 to 2024.
How do Bulgaria and Netherlands rank globally for incidence of low and high pay — high pay incidence?
Bulgaria ranks 3rd and Netherlands ranks 7th of 32 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, published as Incidence of low and high pay — High pay Incidence. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Bulgaria vs Netherlands: Incidence of low and high pay — High pay Incidence. Statizoid, drawing on Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Retrieved 27 August 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/compare/incidence-of-low-and-high-pay-high-pay-incidence/bulgaria/netherlands-2/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/compare/incidence-of-low-and-high-pay-high-pay-incidence/bulgaria/netherlands-2/">Bulgaria vs Netherlands: Incidence of low and high pay — High pay Incidence</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Incidence of low and high pay — High pay Incidence
Unit
Percentage of full-time employment
Source
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Licence
OECD Terms and Conditions (attribution required)
Coverage
40 places, 618 data points, 1985–2025
Last refreshed

This dataset contains series on the incidence of low-paid workers defined as the share of full-time workers earning less than two-thirds of gross median earnings of all full-time workers; the incidence of high-paid workers defined as the share of full-time workers earning more than one-and-half time gross median earnings of all full-time workers.