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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 guides

  • Germany 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 And the 2024 figure most sources print is superseded.

  • Netherlands income tax brackets: 2024, 2025 and 2026 compared

    In 2024 there were two bands; in 2025 there were three. And the falling headline rate is not a tax cut — the national insurance half has not moved since 2024.

  • 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.

  • Salary thresholds are formulas, not numbers

    Six countries, six different machines for producing one figure — and only one of them publishes the figure itself on a page you would think to check. What drives each threshold, when it moves, and how to tell whether the number you found is still true.

Cities people move to

Five countries, and the places inside them where the offers come from.

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