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Portugal looks easy from the outside. Then you see the local salaries, or you send forty applications into silence. Portugal is very doable for Americans, but only if you pick the right door first.
Hired in Portugal is a 7-page starter kit for Americans who want a real life in Portugal, not a fantasy of one. Inside:
The visa numbers. All five routes: the job seeker visa that lets you live in Portugal for 120 days while you search (almost nothing like it exists in Europe), the D1 work visa, the D3 for well-paid specialists, the D8 digital nomad visa at €3,680 a month, and which one fits your situation.
The salary reality. The chapter most Portugal content skips: what jobs actually pay, why salaries arrive in 14 payments a year, and the honest math on when to keep your US remote income instead of taking a local contract.
Where the jobs are. Portugal had over 55,000 open vacancies at the end of 2025. Which sectors hire in English, the biggest entry doors for foreigners, and where to look, from NetEmprego to the agencies that place English speakers.
Your first 30 days. A week-by-week checklist, from choosing your door to your first ten applications.
Written from 16 years of career strategy and a transatlantic move I made myself. No one can promise you a job, and I won't. What I promise is strategy, positioning, and visibility, and that you'll walk in knowing exactly what the postcard version leaves out.
Instant download. PDF, 2026 edition.
Portugal looks easy from the outside. Then you see the local salaries, or you send forty applications into silence. Portugal is very doable for Americans, but only if you pick the right door first.
Hired in Portugal is a 7-page starter kit for Americans who want a real life in Portugal, not a fantasy of one. Inside:
The visa numbers. All five routes: the job seeker visa that lets you live in Portugal for 120 days while you search (almost nothing like it exists in Europe), the D1 work visa, the D3 for well-paid specialists, the D8 digital nomad visa at €3,680 a month, and which one fits your situation.
The salary reality. The chapter most Portugal content skips: what jobs actually pay, why salaries arrive in 14 payments a year, and the honest math on when to keep your US remote income instead of taking a local contract.
Where the jobs are. Portugal had over 55,000 open vacancies at the end of 2025. Which sectors hire in English, the biggest entry doors for foreigners, and where to look, from NetEmprego to the agencies that place English speakers.
Your first 30 days. A week-by-week checklist, from choosing your door to your first ten applications.
Written from 16 years of career strategy and a transatlantic move I made myself. No one can promise you a job, and I won't. What I promise is strategy, positioning, and visibility, and that you'll walk in knowing exactly what the postcard version leaves out.
Instant download. PDF, 2026 edition.