Ecuador

Visa facts

• Maximum stay: n/a days
• Processing time: ? - ? days
• Dependents allowed: unknown
• Remote work permission: explicitly allowed
• Renewal path: unknown
• Income requirement: 3 / month
• Savings requirement: Data not published

Tax and compliance

Resident treatment: SRI guidance indicates residents are subject to income tax and OECD competent-authority profile (fallback residency source) states residents are taxable on worldwide income and are generally residents when present in Ecuador for more than 183 days in a calendar year. Non-resident treatment: SRI guidance indicates non-residents with taxable income are covered under LORTI through source/withholding rules (detailed withholding bands not fully extracted in this run). Employee social contribution: IESS employer guidance states 9.45% employee contribution. Assumptions: residency trigger was encoded as 184 from the OECD competent-authority profile as fallback because a directly citable domestic page with the explicit day-count threshold was not identified in this run. Confidence: medium (official SRI/IESS sources support core rates, but residency day-count relies on OECD fallback and non-resident detail remains fragmented).

Cost and infrastructure

• Monthly cost baseline: $844
• Rent (1BR city center): $335
• Internet: $27
• Coworking: Data not published

Method (USD, LivingCost country table, retrieved 2026-02-27): poor=832.83 (without-rent basket + cheap 1BR + one-person utility bill + internet), average=844.18 (LivingCost 'Total with rent'), comfortable=889.57 (without-rent basket + city-center 1BR + one-person utility bill + internet). monthly_cost_single_usd is set to the average baseline. City coverage on source page: 19. Confidence: medium (crowdsourced, country-level averages).