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Moving to Luxembourg: the essentials
Permits, languages, salaries, real costs: what to know before settling in the Grand Duchy.
Who can come and work?
EU/EEA citizens settle freely: an arrival declaration at the commune within 8 days, then a registration certificate within 3 months, and you're done. Third-country nationals go through a salaried-worker residence permit, usually sponsored by the employer. The job market revolves around finance, the EU institutions, tech and healthcare — and hires widely in French and English.
Trilingualism, in practice
The country runs in Luxembourgish, French and German. Day to day, French is enough almost everywhere in the south and the capital, German helps in the east, English dominates finance and tech. Luxembourgish remains the key to social integration (and naturalisation): communal classes are cheap and language leave exists.
High salaries, high rents
The skilled minimum wage exceeds €3,000 gross and the median salary is the EU's highest — but a decent one-bedroom in the capital commonly rents above €1,800. Hence this site's central equation: stay in the country and accept the rent, aim for the Nordstad or the south to breathe, or cross the border and pay the commute in time. No answer is universal; our scores exist to compare those three strategies city by city.
The paperwork that matters
In order: employment contract, housing (the hardest part), arrival declaration, social-security registration (CCSS) via the employer, bank account, tax card. The CNS then reimburses healthcare on an "advance then refund" model. MyGuichet.lu centralises most procedures online.
