Living in the Marshall Islands

The Marshall Islands pay better than you might expect for somewhere this small and remote, and tax barely touches what you earn. English is widely used, which lowers one of the usual barriers for someone coming from outside. The catch is the size of it. Openings are few and hiring is hard to crack without a reason to already be here, so the question is less what the job pays than whether there is a job to find at all.

The Marshall Islands take in more people than they send, with 2.9K foreign-born residents making up 8% of the population. The United States is the leading origin (1,400), ahead of the Philippines and China.