Foreign workers availing non-resident visas have to obtain a Work Visa, also known as the 12-VI visa. Expats traveling to the country for business or other professional purposes require this Ecuador work visa.

Employment Rate in Ecuador averaged 48.55 percent from 2007 until 2024, reaching an all time high of 57.94 percent in the second quarter of 2014 and a record low of 20.20 percent in the second quarter of 2020. source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica y Censos (INEC)

And according to the Ecuadorean census, the most common occupation for both men and women is the provision of basic social reproduction services: cleaning, domestic household maintenance, street food sellers, rural wage labor, and fisheries.