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• €3,900 in Bottrop leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,779 would in Berlin.

	15 wins Bottrop North Rhine-Westphalia · Open profile	3 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	118,482	3,913,644
People per km²	1,178	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	11	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	8.2%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€3,936	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	6.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	490%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Bottrop, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,382	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€8.57	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+0.8%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€8	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€6.10	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	3.1%	2%
Owner-occupiers	37.5%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€2,136	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€5,060	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€166,740	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€19,709	€43,851
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	€2,552	€2,552
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€600	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,952	€1,487
Rent as a share of netlower is better	23.5%	41.7%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	6.1	14.1
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€3,900	€4,779