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• €3,800 in Chemnitz leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,999 would in Berlin.

	14 wins Chemnitz Saxony · Open profile	3 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	247,252	3,913,644
People per km²	1,119	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	11	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	10.1%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€3,794	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	450%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Chemnitz, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€1,113	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€5.99	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-1.7%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€6	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€5.26	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	11%	2%
Owner-occupiers	18.5%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	–	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	–	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€77,910	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€8,430	€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	€2,484	€2,497
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€419	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,065	€1,433
Rent as a share of netlower is better	16.9%	42.6%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	2.9	14.4
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€3,800	€4,999