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🇵🇹Portugal · High income · 2026-Q3

Lisbon

26composite score · #42 of 50

MEDIUM · sourced, not yet live-verified

LOW-quality provenance despite the MEDIUM label's history. The Lisbon earnings figure originated with a blocklisted salary aggregator, which the row's own basis note flagged for removal; that source and its corroborating link are now deleted, and no replacement exists. earnings_url (SalaryExpert) cannot be content-verified at all: 403 live, and its stored capture is a Cloudflare challenge. No Fairwork Portugal report exists. The ranked quantity is unaffected in kind: applies_via is 'none', so Lisbon is scored on an estimate, and that estimate is now openly sourceless rather than attributed to a blocklisted page.

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Earnings (USD per hour)

Net, after tax & expensesn/a
Gross$7.58/hr

Source: No verifiable source (SalaryExpert 403; aggregator origin removed)

What would you take home in Lisbon?

30hrs

Take-home, weekly

n/a

Take-home, monthly

n/a

Gross, weekly

$227

Gross, monthly

$985

Take-home is gross hourly minus an estimated tax/expense rate per country. See the methodology page for the derivation. This widget assumes you actually work the hours you set. For app-based delivery, a portion of logged-in time is unpaid waiting; the headline rate reflects engaged time only where regulators have defined it.

Cost of living vs. earnings

Hours of work for one month's rent (1BR outside centre)709 hours
Rent, 1BR outside centre$1226/mo
Restaurant meal (mid-range)$17.07

Pay vs. local labour market

Minimum wage$6.04/hr
Median wage (all occupations)$8.81/hr

Gross hourly is 59% of local minimum wage, 40% of local median.

Notes

Portugal's national minimum wage is EUR 920/month from 1 January 2026. Lisbon has experienced severe housing inflation; rent now eats most of full-time delivery earnings.

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See full source citations for this city on the sources page. Read about how each metric is computed in the methodology.

Primary earnings source: www.salaryexpert.com/salary/job/food-delivery-driver/portugal · archived