In 2017, the government expenditure on the compensation of employees in the Netherlands decreased by 0.2 percent of GDP (-2.3 percent) since 2016. Therefore, the expenditure in the Netherlands saw its lowest number in that year with 8.5 percent of GDP.
The source defines compensation of employees as follows: 'The remuneration paid by employers to their employees in return for work done. Employees are all residents and non-residents working in a paid job. It includes remuneration of people working in sheltered workplaces.
* The figures for 2015 and 2016 are still provisional.
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