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 guidesSpain's digital nomad visa income requirement, derived from the law
For 2026 the figure is €2,849 a month for a single applicant. Here is the arithmetic it comes from — and why the other numbers you have seen are not wrong so much as answering a different question.
Moving to the Netherlands from the US: the number that decides it
For an American the Dutch route turns on one salary figure and one fact about who applies. In 2026 that figure is €5,942 a month — about 1.42 times what a full-time worker in the Netherlands actually earns.
What counts as salary for a work visa, and what does not
Four countries, four different definitions of the same word. Comparing your offer with the published threshold is only safe once you know which parts of the offer the authority actually counts.
The Dutch 30% ruling in 2027: what changes and who keeps 30%
The maximum tax-free share drops to 27% — but not for everybody, and not on the schedule that was announced first. Two details decide which rate applies to you.
Cities people move to
Five countries, and the places inside them where the offers come from.
Photo credits and licences
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- Dublin — 瑞丽江的河水 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Amsterdam — Andrés Barrios · CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Rotterdam — Rob Oo · CC BY 2.0
- Barcelona — M McBey · CC BY 2.0
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