Expats in Austria

Three days to register, four months to legalise, and a capital where half the population lives in subsidised housing you cannot touch for two years.

Austria will let an employer dismiss you without a reason — but not without the calendar, the collective agreement and the works council all having their say.

Austria’s hardest hiring risk isn’t the permit — it’s the collective agreement, and the LSD-BG prices a misclassified pay grade at up to €400,000.

Austria pays fourteen salaries a year and taxes two of them at 6% – which is why a Vienna offer nets far more than its marginal rate suggests.

Austria hands you the arithmetic up front – 70 points, 55 points, EUR 55,678 – and then applies it without mercy. Here is how to clear each bar.