Athens
The main hub. Ancient city, enormous nightlife, rooftop bars looking at a floodlit Acropolis, and the Riviera beaches forty minutes down the tram line.
🇬🇷 Destination
Working in Greece
Greece is the value play and it is not close. The relocation packages are the most complete we place on anywhere, the cost of living is the lowest of the three countries, and a Greek contract pays fourteen salaries a year rather than twelve. People move to Athens meaning to stay a year and are still there four years later.
- Where we place
- Athens, Thessaloniki and Chania
- Typical contract
- Permanent Greek contract
- Salaries per year
- 14, not 12
- Working week
- 40 hours
- Paid holiday
- 20 days plus public holidays
- Language needed
- Your native language plus around B2 English
Why people go
What actually makes Greece worth the move
Not the brochure version. The things people who moved here bring up unprompted a year later.
01
Fourteen salaries a year, and someone else buys the flight
A Greek contract pays fourteen monthly salaries, not twelve: half at Easter, half in summer, a full one at Christmas. On top of that the employers we place with book and pay your flight, put you in a hotel while you look for a flat, sort your AFM and AMKA paperwork and pay for Greek lessons. It is the most complete package on the market by a distance.
02
The islands are a ferry, not a holiday
This is what people underestimate. From Piraeus you can be on Aegina in forty minutes, Hydra in ninety, Naxos or Paros by early afternoon. A Greek island stops being a once-a-year trip and turns into something you do on a long weekend because the weather was good and the ferry was €40.
03
Your money goes further here than anywhere in the eurozone
A room in a shared flat in Athens runs €300 to €450. A pita gyros is €3.50 to €4.50. A full taverna dinner with a carafe of house wine lands around €18. On a Greek package with the flight and first weeks covered, an ordinary salary buys a standard of living that would take considerably more money in Amsterdam or Copenhagen.
04
Athens is not a museum
People arrive expecting ruins and find a scruffy, loud, extremely alive city. Bars in Exarcheia, terraces in Koukaki, rooftops looking straight at a floodlit Acropolis, and a nightlife that does not really start until midnight. The Riviera beaches are forty minutes down the tram line and winter is mild enough to keep eating outside.
Real numbers
What a month in Greece actually costs
Current 2026 prices, not figures copied from a five-year-old guide. If anything here turns out to be wrong, tell us and we will fix it.
Thessaloniki is cheaper again than Athens, and Chania cheaper still outside the summer. These are 2026 figures and food prices have moved: souvlaki is no longer the bargain older guides promise.
- Room in a shared flat, Athens
- €300 to €450
- Room in a shared flat, Thessaloniki
- €250 to €380
- Studio outside the centre
- €500 to €680
- Pita gyros or souvlaki
- €3.50 to €4.50
- Full taverna dinner with wine
- €15 to €20
- Monthly transport pass, Athens
- €30
- Utilities and internet
- €120 to €200
- Comfortable month, sharing a flat
- €900 to €1,200
Where the roles are
The cities we place into in Greece
Thessaloniki
Northern Greece and a student city, so it skews young. Widely agreed to have the best food in the country, cheaper than Athens, and Halkidiki's beaches an hour away.
Chania, Crete
Yes, there is a support hub on Crete. A Venetian harbour, mountains behind the town, and beaches that empty out completely by October.
Before you go
What living in Greece is actually like
The parts of the move nobody puts in the job advert.
Getting set up
You need an AFM tax number and an AMKA social security number. The employers we place with book those appointments and go with you, and several put you in a hotel for the first weeks while you find a flat rather than leaving you to it.
Finding somewhere to live
Most people land in a shared flat in Koukaki, Pangrati or Kypseli, all central and walkable. Spitogatos is the main listings site. Because relocation support normally includes help with the search, this is far less stressful in Greece than doing it cold.
Weekends
Ferries from Piraeus and Rafina reach the Saronic islands in under two hours and the Cyclades in a morning. Delphi and Meteora are drivable. In winter, Parnassos has skiing two and a half hours from Athens. From Chania, the Samaria gorge and the pink sand at Elafonisi are both day trips.
Most commonly hired for
- Customer advisor
- Technical support
- Content review
- Inside sales
Hiring now
Open roles in Greece
AthensOn-site
DutchCustomer advisorSeveral seats
Dutch-speaking Customer, Technical and Sales Experts
Dutch is one of the two languages our Greek partner hires for all year round. There is almost always something open, usually across several programmes at once, so this is less a single vacancy than a standing invitation.
Several seats open · flight and hotel covered
Permanent · Intakes every two weeks
AthensOn-site
GermanCustomer advisorSeveral seats
German-speaking Customer and Technical Experts
The largest and most consistently open desk in Greece. German speakers are hired effectively without pause, across several programmes and in both Athens and Thessaloniki, so start dates are frequent and you rarely wait long.
Several seats open · flight and hotel covered
Permanent · Intakes every two weeks
AthensOn-site
DanishCustomer advisorSeveral seats
Danish-speaking Customer and Content Experts
Danish speakers are scarce on the ground in Greece, which is why these desks carry the full relocation package. Several programmes run a Danish seat, in Athens and in Thessaloniki, and we will match you to whichever fits.
Flight and hotel covered · 14 salaries a year
Permanent · Intakes monthly
AthensOn-site
NorwegianCustomer advisorSeveral seats
Norwegian-speaking Customer and Technical Experts
Norwegian speakers are rare enough in Greece that these desks get looked after. The unusual part: alongside Athens and Thessaloniki, one of the programmes runs from Chania on Crete, with the Venetian harbour a walk from the office.
Athens, Thessaloniki or Crete · full relocation
Permanent · Intakes monthly
AthensOn-site
SwedishCustomer advisorSeveral seats
Swedish-speaking Customer and Content Experts
Swedish is a scarce language on the ground in Athens, so these desks carry the full relocation package and tend to be looked after. Several programmes run a Swedish seat and we will match you to the one that fits.
Flight and hotel covered · 14 salaries a year
Permanent · Intakes monthly
The role is not the hard part. Deciding to go is.
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