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Compare an offer across countries
Country pages answer what applies in one country. This answers the question people actually have with an offer in hand: how does the same salary land in each of them.
Enter the salary from your offer to compare all countries at once.
The comparison runs in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere, stored or logged. It compares your figure with published thresholds and rates — it is not a tax calculation and not advice.
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These pages take one specific move and say what actually changes — which rules you gain, which you lose, and where the arithmetic reverses.
- Moving from the Netherlands to Germany
Two things flip on this move, and both surprise people: the salary bar is lower in Germany, and the tax break you had in Amsterdam does not exist in Berlin.
- Moving from Germany to the Netherlands
The Dutch 30% ruling is the reason most people make this move on paper — and the reason many who move from Germany cannot use it.
- Moving from the United Kingdom to the Netherlands
This move crosses a currency and a calendar: the pay is quoted in a different unit, and the tax year you leave does not line up with the one you join.
- Moving from the Netherlands to Spain
This is the one move on this site with a special tax regime at both ends. You give up the Dutch 30% ruling and you can pick up the Spanish Beckham Law — and the second one has a condition that this particular route almost always satisfies.
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What this comparison does not do
- It does not convert currencies. Exchange rates move daily and a guessed rate would be wrong by a margin that matters when comparing salaries, so countries using a different currency are listed separately instead of being converted.
- The rate shown is income tax only. Social contributions are structured differently in every country — capped in one, uncapped in another — and adding them into a single figure would make the comparison look precise while being wrong.
- Tax credits and allowances are not applied, so the marginal rate shown is not the share of your salary you would lose. It is the rate on the next euro you earn.
- The threshold compared is the standard one for the main permit route. Reduced thresholds for people under 30 or recent graduates exist in several countries and are on the country pages.
This page is information, not advice. We are not an employer, a recruitment agency, a visa centre or an immigration adviser, and we are not affiliated with any government body. Rules change — confirm against the official source before you act.