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You are right, it doesn’t make sense if you want to live in Sweden. For me, I had already spent years living abroad in various places, so effectively it wasn’t
by swedethrow 8y ago
You are right, it doesn’t make sense if you want to live in Sweden. For me, I had already spent years living abroad in various places, so effectively it wasn’t that big of a deal.
FWIW it ended up being a lot more than 20k/y for me, but YMMW.
- hoaw 8y agoPresumably you are able to charge more than the average high income earner. Because usually an employer would pay maybe 70k SEK a month and the employee would get half of that after taxes, but that also includes pension. So in a low tax country you might pay 10% tax and then 15% in pension which leaves you with ~15k SEK more a month. Which could certainly pay for a nice life, but isn't mind blowing. On the other hand if I lived abroad I wouldn't "pay" 15k SEK a month to live in Sweden. In fact, I probably wouldn't move back to Sweden at all because of the increasing lack of quality of life. Which ironically makes it even harder to move in the first place, since I would have to commit to living abroad.