Variable income can be included in your yearly income level to calculate your mortgage capacity.
Most mortgage providers in the Netherlands distinguish two variable income types: commission and bonus.
Commission is defined as personal and based on solely own performance (sales), whereas a bonus could be based on both personal as team or company performance.
Do you receive commission? In that case, we can include the average you received over the past 12 months. Is your variable income a bonus? In that situation, most banks take the average you received over the past consecutive 3 years. Nonetheless, we can always look into the options to include a bonus when it is paid during the last 12 months.
Both variable income components need to be stated on the employer’s statement.