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title: "Earn Abroad: Wages, Contractor Rates & Runway — Geo-Parity"
description: "Local wage ladders, contractor rates against employment, and how far savings stretch once you move."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/earn/"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Earn

# Earning and staying

What should I charge, and how long does my money last?

Local wage ladders, contractor rates against employment, and how far savings stretch once you move.

### [Local Salary Benchmarker](https://geo-parity.com/wage-bands/)

The real local wage ladder — survival, minimum, median, top 10%, top 1% — for setting fair bands or seeing where you stand.

GET /api/wage-bands.json

### [Freelance Rate Calculator](https://geo-parity.com/contractor-calculator/)

Contractor-vs-employee break-even and the hourly/day rate you must charge to hit a target net income — localised to your currency.

GET /api/contract.json

### [Geo-Arbitrage Calculator](https://geo-parity.com/fire/)

Retire abroad on passive income (FIRE), or see how many extra months of runway relocating buys — two ways to make your money go further.

GET /api/fire.json

### [Cross-Border Salary Localizer](https://geo-parity.com/?tab=salary)

What the same role should pay in another country — a cost-of-living-fair salary for remote and relocating staff, in either direction.

GET /api/salary.json

### [Required Freelance Rate](https://geo-parity.com/contractor-calculator/?tab=rate)

Work backwards from the net income you need to the hourly and day rate you must actually charge, after tax, unpaid time and business costs.

GET /api/rate.json

### [Savings Runway Multiplier](https://geo-parity.com/fire/?tab=runway)

How many extra months your savings last if you move — the same money against 86 cities' costs, with the fixed spending that relocating cannot reduce held separate.

GET /api/runway.json

### [Measured Pay by Occupation](https://geo-parity.com/wage-bands/?tab=occupation)

What people in your line of work are actually paid, measured by the ILO rather than modelled — ten occupation groups, with the gender pay gap in each.

GET /api/occupation-pay.json

## Every figure here is computed, not collected

Nothing on this site is a crowdsourced estimate or an editorial top ten. Each tool runs a published dataset — World Bank, IMF, OECD, Eurostat, WHO, HUD — through an engine you can call yourself, and every JSON response carries a citation naming the source and the year it refers to. Where a figure is modelled rather than measured, the page says so.

Each tool above has a free JSON API and an MCP tool, listed on the card. See [how it works](https://geo-parity.com/about/) or the [ranked answers](https://geo-parity.com/best/) if you would rather start from a shortlist than a calculator.

Not sure which tool to start with? [Ask the adviser](https://geo-parity.com/adviser/) what matters to you (Pro), and it will work through these figures for you.

## Other questions

- [Compare countries](https://geo-parity.com/) — What is my money actually worth there?
- [What a month costs](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/) — What does living there actually cost?
- [Where to go, and whether you can](https://geo-parity.com/move/) — Where should I go — and am I allowed to?
- [Working from there](https://geo-parity.com/work/) — Can I actually do my job from there?
- [Will my money work there](https://geo-parity.com/money/) — Will my money work there?
- [What must I comply with](https://geo-parity.com/rules/) — What must I comply with?
- [Is it safe, and what do I need before I go](https://geo-parity.com/safety/) — Is it safe, and what do I need before I go?
- [Can I afford to retire there](https://geo-parity.com/retire/) — Can I afford to retire there?
- [Can I run a business there](https://geo-parity.com/business/) — Can I run a business there?

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/earn/