Living in Saint Lucia

Saint Lucia runs on tourism, and that shapes most of what working here looks like. Pay lands in the middle of the global range and tax takes very little, so against ordinary island costs you keep enough to live on and still set something aside. The harder part is getting in, because hiring leans heavily on who you know, and an outsider with no local footing will find the door slow to open. Hospitality is the clearest way through, and since English is the working language across the islands, the language barrier at least won't be one of your worries.

Saint Lucia sees more people leave than arrive, with a diaspora of 21.7K that grew 11% over the past decade. The largest community is in Canada (7.6K), followed by the US Virgin Islands and Martinique.