Work abroad without the guesswork
Most relocation advice stops at the salary number. What decides whether a move works is whether you clear the visa threshold at all — and what is left after tax once you do.
Official sources only
Every number comes from the authority that decides — the immigration service, the tax administration — not from a consultant's blog. The link is on the page.
Dated, not «up to date»
Thresholds and tax rules change every January. We show when we last checked each figure, so you can tell a fresh page from a stale one.
Permit and money together
Clearing the salary threshold gets you the permit. What you keep depends on tax. Most sites answer one half and ignore the other.
Country references
More countries are being added. Each figure is taken from the official source of that country and carries the date we checked it — we would rather publish one country properly than ten from memory.
Guides, most recently checked
All guidesGermany income tax brackets: 2024, 2025 and 2026 compared
The rates have not changed in three years — 14%, 42% and 45% are identical throughout. Every threshold moved. And the 2024 figure most sources print is superseded.
Portugal's NHR ended: four dates, and which one is yours
Search for when Portugal's non-habitual resident regime ended and you get four different dates. All four are correct: three are separate deadlines in one law and the fourth is the announcement, each answering a different question.
Why some visa thresholds have no published number
A salary threshold set by law as a formula is not the same thing as a salary threshold you can quote. Portugal still shows why. Spain stopped showing it twice over, and both corrections are on this page rather than edited away.
Spain's two highly qualified routes now ask the same salary
€41,356.36 a year, either way. The EU Blue Card and the national authorisation were priced apart for years; since June 2026 they are not. The difference that is left is whether you can qualify for less.
Cities people move to
Six countries, and the places inside them where the offers come from.
Photo credits and licences
- Berlin — Kasa Fue, derivative work by Georgfotoart · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dublin — 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Amsterdam — Andrés Barrios · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Lisbon — Vitor Oliveira from Torres Vedras, PORTUGAL · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Madrid — Zarateman · CC0
- London — Ilya Grigorik · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Munich — Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0 de
- Cork — Darius Whelan · CC BY 2.0
- Rotterdam — Rob Oo · CC BY 2.0
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