The tables describe the provisions for disability and pension benefits for self-employed entrepreneurs working as artists or in other creative professions. The figures for self-employed artists and those in other creative professions are compared to those for self-employed entrepreneurs at skill level 4 and the total number of self-employed individuals. The data is presented for the years 2021 and 2023.
For artists:
- 39% of artists have a pension fund through their current or former employment, which slightly decreased from 41% in 2019.
- 7% have a pension fund as a self-employed entrepreneur, showing a slight increase from 4% in 2021.
- 17% rely on options like an old-age reserve (FOR), annuity, or bank savings plan for their pension.
- 51% have savings or investments as their pension provision.
- 7% consider the value of their business to be their pension.
- 37% view the value of their own home as their pension.
For other creative professions:
- 42% have a pension fund through their current or former employment, which remained stable from 2019 to 2021.
- 4% have a pension fund as a self-employed entrepreneur, showing a slight decrease from 6% in 2021.
- 21% rely on options like an old-age reserve (FOR), annuity, or bank savings plan for their pension.
- 57% have savings or investments as their pension provision.
- 10% consider the value of their business to be their pension.
- 34% view the value of their own home as their pension.
For self-employed entrepreneurs at skill level 4:
- 51% have a pension fund through their current or former employment, which remained stable from 2019 to 2021.
- 14% have a pension fund as a self-employed entrepreneur, showing a slight increase from 13% in 2021.
- 27% rely on options like an old-age reserve (FOR), annuity, or bank savings plan for their pension.
- 59% have savings or investments as their pension provision.
- 12% consider the value of their business to be their pension.
- 37% view the value of their own home as their pension.
Overall, these figures highlight the various pension provisions chosen by self-employed individuals in the artistic and creative sectors in the Netherlands. The data was sourced from the Self-Employment Survey on Labour (ZEA) conducted by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and TNO (Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research).