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• €3,900 in Cottbus leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,904 would in Berlin.

	13 wins Cottbus Brandenburg · Open profile	2 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	95,140	3,913,644
People per km²	574	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	7.4%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€3,887	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	6.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	400%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Cottbus, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,563	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€7.65	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-1.2%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€8	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€5.58	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	6.4%	2%
Owner-occupiers	23.7%	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	€179,410	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€21,206	€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	€536	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,016	€1,487
Rent as a share of netlower is better	21%	41.7%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	6.6	14.1
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€3,900	€4,904