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SettleMetric

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

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Country profiles

Taxes, visas, costs, safety — side by side. Every fact carries its source and a verification date.

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Freelancer tax calculator

Your income against every country's real schemes, special regimes included. See what you keep.

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Open 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.

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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.

27 countries

The atlas so far

Monthly, excl. rent · 1BR rent