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 guidesIreland has no tax-free allowance, and it changes the arithmetic
Income tax starts on the first euro. Credits then reduce the bill — which means the obvious calculation overstates what you owe, sometimes dramatically.
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.
Portugal income tax: four different tables in three years
The bottom rate is quoted as 12.5%, 13% and 13.25% across the first page of results. All three are correct, and all three come from a different version of the same article of the law.
Portugal's skilled job seeker visa: what the law actually says
Portugal's skilled job seeker visa is written into law and cannot be applied for, and the reason is specific: the law delegates the list of qualifying skills to a ministerial order that has not been published. Also the one-year lockout that no page mentions.
Cities people move to
Five 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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