Findings
Answering one question properly meant reading every work permit in 18 countries on the authority's own pages. That left a by-product: countable facts about how those authorities publish, which nobody aggregates and which explain why this is so hard to do yourself. Every number below is counted from the catalogue at build time, and every one lists the permits behind it.
Finding 01
A salary threshold quoted without its condition is not a simplification of the rule, it is a different rule. The conditions below decide which parts of a package count, which year the figure belongs to, and whether a lower floor applies to you.
Every permit in the catalogue was read on the authority's own page and its salary floor recorded with whatever the source says around it. The count is of permits whose recorded floor carries a condition against permits that publish a floor at all. Nothing on this site requires a condition to be present, so a permit that published a bare figure would show up here as one.
Quote the number with the date this page was built from, 2026-09-22, and link the anchor: https://qualipath.co/findings#salary-conditions. The figure is recomputed whenever the data behind it changes, so it will not silently drift from what you cited.
Download the full table (29 rows, CSV) ↓One row per permit that publishes a salary floor, with the pay period it is stated in, the year it belongs to, and the condition its own source attaches to it.
Finding 02
Portugal and Austria and France publish two of their own routes on different periods. A monthly floor and an annual floor rendered as bare numbers look like a twelvefold difference in difficulty that is not there, and that is how someone rules themselves out of a permit they qualify for.
Counted from the pay period recorded for each salary floor, which is a required field on this site precisely because of what follows. The currencies are the ones the authorities themselves use.
Quote the number with the date this page was built from, 2026-09-22, and link the anchor: https://qualipath.co/findings#pay-periods. The figure is recomputed whenever the data behind it changes, so it will not silently drift from what you cited.
The routes below belong to the same country as each other, and are not stated in the same unit.
Finding 04
Academic comparability and professional recognition are decided by different organisations, on different timetables, and one does not substitute for the other. Being told your degree is 'comparable to' a local one says nothing about whether you may hold a regulated job.
Counted from the permits that name an academic credential evaluation as a condition, and the distinct bodies that issue them.
Quote the number with the date this page was built from, 2026-09-22, and link the anchor: https://qualipath.co/findings#comparability-is-not-a-licence. The figure is recomputed whenever the data behind it changes, so it will not silently drift from what you cited.
Finding 05
Points systems dominate how people talk about moving abroad, and they are the exception. On most of these routes there is no score to optimise and no ranking to beat: there is a set of conditions, and you either meet each one or you do not.
Counted from each permit's basis, as its own authority describes the test: a score to reach, or a list of conditions to meet.
Quote the number with the date this page was built from, 2026-09-22, and link the anchor: https://qualipath.co/findings#scoring-is-the-minority. The figure is recomputed whenever the data behind it changes, so it will not silently drift from what you cited.
The data
The findings above show a sample, because a page with a hundred rows on it stops being read. These are the whole tables. Every row carries the official page it came from and the date a human last opened it, so a row lifted out on its own is still checkable.
It is not a ranking of countries, not advice about where to go, and not a claim about any rule. It counts how the material is published, not what it says. The rules themselves live on the permit and country pages, each one carrying the official source it came from.
They are free to quote with attribution to QualiPath and a link, and the full tables are downloadable above rather than on request. If you want a count we do not publish, ask and we will run it.
The question behind the research
This report is a by-product. The product answers whether your profession is regulated where you are going, and which permits are open to you.