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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864 verified facts · 30 documented gaps · 79 schemes and 142 legalization paths, every one citing an official source
886 sources across 416 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 27 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%
- Montenegro16%
- Colombia17.3%
- Bulgaria18.1%
- United States18.1%
- Estonia22%
- Poland23.6%
- Romania24.1%
- Italy24.9%
- Cyprus26.5%
- Slovakia27.3%
- Spain28.4%
- Austria29.4%
- Portugal30%
- Greece30.9%
- France34.1%
Popular comparisons
Build any comparison →One-bedroom asking rent · pleasant months per year
Every city we cover
Asking rent for a one-bedroom runs from $243 (Antalya) to $3,570 (New York City) — a 14.7× spread across 55 cities.
- Albania2 cities
- Armenia1 city
- Austria1 city
- Bulgaria2 cities
- Colombia2 cities
- Croatia2 cities
- Cyprus2 cities
- Czechia2 cities
- Estonia1 city
- France2 cities
- Georgia2 cities
- Greece2 cities
- Indonesia2 cities
- Italy3 cities
- Malaysia2 cities
- Mexico3 cities
- Moldova1 city
- Montenegro2 cities
- Poland2 cities
- Portugal3 cities
- Romania2 cities
- Slovakia1 city
- Spain3 cities
- Thailand3 cities
- Türkiye2 cities
- United Arab Emirates2 cities
- United States3 cities
27 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
- 05Colombia2 schemes$705 · $615
- 06Croatia3 schemes$850 · $776
- 07Cyprus1 scheme$970 · $1,330
- 08Czechia4 schemes$785 · $998
- 09Estonia3 schemes$900 · $684
- 10France3 schemes$1,816 · $855
- 11Georgia4 schemes$220 · $532
- 12Greece3 schemes$766 · $604
- 13Indonesia3 schemes$700 · $505
- 14Italy4 schemes$1,093 · $922
- 15Malaysia3 schemes$620 · $635
- 16Mexico2 schemes$780 · $700
- 17Moldova2 schemes$283 · $450
- 18Montenegro4 schemes$900 · $590
- 19Poland4 schemes$753 · $969
- 20Portugal4 schemes$1,166 · $1,020
- 21Romania3 schemes$510 · $675
- 22Slovakia4 schemes$560 · $1,026
- 23Spain2 schemes$941 · $872
- 24Thailand3 schemes$560 · $480
- 25Türkiye2 schemes$450 · $720
- 26United Arab Emirates3 schemes$840 · $1,815
- 27United States3 schemes$1,741 · $1,444