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Worked through as a single earner in tax class I, no church, the average Zusatzbeitrag, no children. The salary calculator takes your real situation.

• €4,500 in Berlin leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €5,579 would in Munich.

	13 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	6 wins Munich Bavaria · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	3,913,644	1,505,036
People per km²	4,392	4,844
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	13
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	10.4%	5.7%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,459	€5,600
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	6%	3.5%
Church taxlower is better	9%	8%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	410%	490%
Housingimmoportal.com: Berlin, Munich
Asking price per m²lower is better	€5,534	€8,351
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€15.21	€23.08
Prices, last 12 months	-1%	-0.7%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€17	€21
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€7.67	€12.89
Vacant flatshigher is better	2%	2.4%
Owner-occupiers	16.4%	24%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€6,450	€7,600
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€8,108	€10,400
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€387,380	€584,570
Closing costs on itlower is better	€43,851	€51,559
With this salaryBetween cities the net changes only through the state: church tax (8% in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, 9% elsewhere, members only) and Saxony's higher employee share of care insurance. Wage tax and the other contributions are federal, so what differs here is mostly the rent.
Net payhigher is better	€2,871	€2,871
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€1,065	€1,616
Left after renthigher is better	€1,806	€1,255
Rent as a share of netlower is better	37.1%	56.3%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	12.5	18.5
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,500	€5,579