Palau

Visa facts

• Maximum stay: 180 days
• Processing time: 7 - 14 days
• Dependents allowed: unknown
• Remote work permission: not explicit
• Renewal path: unknown
• Income requirement: Data not published
• Savings requirement: Data not published

Tax and compliance

Resident treatment: published PNCC materials clearly provide wage/salary tax bands up to 12% and PGST at 10%, but a modern explicit day-count tax residency rule was not found in directly cited public guidance. Non-resident treatment: source-based withholding and wage taxation are documented, but a full resident/non-resident comparative framework is not clearly consolidated in available public pages. Assumptions: effective income tax rate uses top wage/salary tax band (12%); employee social contribution uses ROPSSA employee contribution rate of 7%. Confidence: low (core rates are official, but residency and foreign-income treatment are not fully documented in readily accessible sources).

Cost and infrastructure

• Monthly cost baseline: $1,339
• Rent (1BR city center): $750
• Internet: $130
• Coworking: Data not published

Method: Numbeo country data (USD display) retrieved 2026-02-27 for rent/utilities/internet plus LivingCost country aggregate for the no-rent base (updated October 14, 2025) because Numbeo does not currently publish a single-person no-rent summary for Palau. Baselines: poor 839 USD, average 1339 USD, comfortable 1589 USD (computed as no-rent base + 1BR outside-centre minimum / 1BR city-centre average / 1BR city-centre maximum). Numbeo last update: 20 March 2025. monthly_coworking_usd is null due no reliable country-level coworking dataset. Confidence: low (very small Palau sample and mixed-source fallback).