How every number on ExpatRate is computed

Anchor one: the market quote

Percentiles (P25, median, P75) for your role family, seniority, and country, from official statistics (BLS OEWS, ONS ASHE, ATO taxation statistics, CBS StatLine, Job Bank Canada, PSA) and cited recruiter sources. Every row lists its sources, sample size where stated, quality rating, and review date. Where no verified source exists, the cell stays an explicit gap.

Anchor two: the purchasing-power floor

Your net salary, transferred at World Bank private-consumption PPP rates, then grossed up at the target country's effective tax rate from legislated schedules. It answers what gross you need to live as well as today. It is a decision number, never an opening quote; when the market cannot fund it, the result says so and shows the gap. Where no verified schedule exists, the gross-up instead applies a conservative 20 percent default and says so in the result; 180 of 207 countries currently sit on that default.

Provenance

2014 benchmark pages generated from the curated dataset. Sources, with the number of cells each backs:

Estimates from public market data, indicative only. Not financial, tax, or legal advice.