Salary in recreation

This is on your payslip  

Your employer is required to provide you with a (digital) payslip with your first salary payment and with each change. Even if there are no changes, you should always receive a payslip if you request one. 

This information should always be on a payslip:

Gross/net salary

Your payslip shows the amount you earn gross. You can see how much tax and which premiums are deducted from this. What remains is your net salary. Your net salary is the amount that is ultimately deposited into your bank account.

Annual statement

At the end of the year, you receive an annual statement from your employer. This is a summary of all the payslips you have received that year. You use the annual statement for your tax return. More information can be found on the website of the Tax and Customs Administration.

Salary check

If you are a temporary worker or fall under the Participation Act, you should earn at least the statutory minimum salary according to the CLA recreation. In this salary table, you can see what you must legally earn per hour as of 1 July 2025:

The statutory minimum salary is revised every year in January and July. If you earn the minimum salary, check your salary twice a year. 

This is how a role in recreation is established 

Everyone working in recreation is assigned to a role. For this, the employer uses the Recreation Role Classification Handbook. To determine your role, the employer describes your main tasks and responsibilities. Your employer compares the job description with the level descriptions of the job type applicable to you. Based on this, they assign your role to a job level. Your employer is obliged to inform you under which job level your role falls. This way, you always know which role you are assigned to and can check if the salary you receive is correct.

To receive the salary associated with the job level your role is classified under, you must be vocationally mature. The vocationally mature age is 18 years. Vocationally mature means that you have a relevant diploma or 1,976 hours of experience. If you do not meet one of these two conditions and are younger than 21 years, you will be classified in a youth salary scale corresponding to the job level (salary scale 1 to 4) or in a starter scale (from salary scale 5).

If you are 21 years or older and do not meet one of the two criteria, you will be classified in period 0, corresponding to the job level or a starter scale.

Role increment

Annually, on 1 January, you are placed in a higher role increment until you reach the maximum number of increments for your job level. You must have been classified at that job level for the entire previous year. This does not apply if your employer, with the consent of the works council or Staff Representation, uses their own assessment system approved by KIKK Recreation.

Salary not paid on time?

If you work, you are entitled to wages. The timing of when your employer must pay your wages depends on the agreements made in your employment contract or CLA. If there are no agreements about this, your wages must be paid no later than the last day of the month.

If you receive your wages late, email or call your employer and ask for the reason. Perhaps something went wrong with the transfer, or your employer has financial problems. During this conversation, ask if your salary can still be paid. If this does not happen, send your employer a salary claim letter or contact us.  

In the event of late payment of salary, you can claim a statutory increase and statutory interest for delay. The statutory increase is:

• 5% per day for the fourth to the eighth working day after the day the wages should have been paid;
• thereafter 1% for each subsequent working day, with a maximum of 50% of your wages.

If the case goes to court, the court can reduce the increase to a lower amount (for example, 10% or 15%). Your employer does not have to pay the increase if they can prove that the delay was not their fault.