Living in Serbia

Serbia pays comparatively well by global standards, and although the cost of an ordinary life rises to meet it, tax takes only a modest share, so a salary still ends the month comfortably ahead. The harder part is landing the work itself. Hiring runs on local ties, and an outsider with no track record here will find most doors slow to open. Tech is the way through, where IT work happens largely in English, demand holds steady, and skill counts for more than connections.

Serbia sends out somewhat more people than it takes in, with roughly 963.3K Serbians abroad against 696.6K foreign-born residents at home. The diaspora, up 24% over the past decade, concentrates in German-speaking Europe — Germany hosts the most at 303.7K, followed by Austria. Arrivals come overwhelmingly from the former Yugoslav neighborhood, led by Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.