Verified relocation data for the location-independent
Compare cost of living, taxes and visas for remote workers.
Where you live is the biggest financial decision a remote worker makes. We measure it — freelancer tax schemes with special regimes, legalization paths, real costs — from official sources only. When we can't verify something, we say so.
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1216 verified facts · 59 documented gaps · 89 schemes and 160 legalization paths, every one citing an official source
1098 sources across 479 domains · data CC BY 4.0
Country profiles
Taxes, visas, costs, safety — side by side. Every fact carries its source and a verification date.
02Freelancer tax calculator
Your income against every country's real schemes, special regimes included. See what you keep.
03Open methodology
Published anchors and weights you can re-set yourself. The whole dataset is CC BY 4.0.
Best scheme each country allows, at €60k/year
What a freelancer actually keeps
At €60,000 a year, total tax and social contributions for a solo freelancer run from 0% (Malaysia, United Arab Emirates) to 34.1% (France). 7 of 31 countries land under 5%.
Each figure is computed by our tax engine from that country’s own tax code, at the best scheme it allows. The source, the effective date and the verification date sit on every country’s tax page.
Malaysia, United Arab Emirates
France
- Malaysia0%
- United Arab Emirates0%
- Georgia1%
- Mexico2%
- Albania3.2%
- Thailand3.7%
- Türkiye4.4%
- Moldova7%
- Croatia7.6%
- Indonesia9.1%
- Armenia10.8%
- Czechia13%
- Monaco14.7%
- Montenegro16%
- United Kingdom17%
- Colombia17.3%
- Bulgaria18.1%
- United States18.1%
- Estonia22%
- Poland23.6%
- Canada24%
- Romania24.1%
- Italy24.9%
- Cyprus26.5%
- Slovakia27.3%
- Switzerland27.8%
- Spain28.4%
- Austria29.4%
- Portugal30%
- Greece30.9%
- France34.1%
Where the numbers differ most
Build any comparison →One-bedroom asking rent · pleasant months per year
Every city we cover
Asking rent for a one-bedroom runs from $296 (İzmir) to $3,570 (New York City) — a 12.1× spread across 93 cities.
- Albania2 cities
- Armenia1 city
- Austria4 cities
- Bulgaria3 cities
- Canada5 cities
- Colombia2 cities
- Croatia4 cities
- Cyprus2 cities
- Czechia2 cities
- Estonia2 cities
- France5 cities
- Georgia2 cities
- Greece3 cities
- Indonesia2 cities
- Italy6 cities
- Malaysia2 cities
- Mexico3 cities
- Moldova1 city
- Monaco1 city
- Montenegro4 cities
- Poland4 cities
- Portugal3 cities
- Romania4 cities
- Slovakia2 cities
- Spain5 cities
- Switzerland2 cities
- Thailand3 cities
- Türkiye4 cities
- United Arab Emirates2 cities
- United Kingdom5 cities
- United States4 cities
31 countries
The atlas so far
Monthly, excl. rent · 1BR rent
- 01Albania2 schemes$301 · $413
- 02Armenia2 schemes$187 · $406
- 03Austria4 schemes$1,973 · $1,354
- 04Bulgaria2 schemes$460 · $570
- 05Canada4 schemes$1,272 · —
- 06Colombia2 schemes$705 · $615
- 07Croatia3 schemes$850 · $776
- 08Cyprus1 scheme$970 · $1,330
- 09Czechia4 schemes$785 · $998
- 10Estonia3 schemes$900 · $684
- 11France3 schemes$1,816 · $855
- 12Georgia4 schemes$220 · $532
- 13Greece3 schemes$766 · $604
- 14Indonesia3 schemes$700 · $505
- 15Italy4 schemes$1,093 · $922
- 16Malaysia3 schemes$620 · $635
- 17Mexico2 schemes$780 · $700
- 18Moldova2 schemes$283 · $450
- 19Monaco2 schemes— · —
- 20Montenegro4 schemes$900 · $590
- 21Poland4 schemes$753 · $969
- 22Portugal4 schemes$1,166 · $1,020
- 23Romania3 schemes$510 · $675
- 24Slovakia4 schemes$560 · $1,026
- 25Spain2 schemes$941 · $872
- 26Switzerland1 scheme$2,028 · $2,211
- 27Thailand3 schemes$560 · $480
- 28Türkiye2 schemes$450 · $720
- 29United Arab Emirates3 schemes$840 · $1,815
- 30United Kingdom3 schemes$1,691 · $2,223
- 31United States3 schemes$1,741 · $1,444