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• €3,800 in Erfurt leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,449 would in Berlin.

	16 wins Erfurt Thuringia · Open profile	2 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	217,159	3,913,644
People per km²	805	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	11	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	6.7%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€3,763	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	470%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Erfurt, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,689	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€10.25	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-0.8%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€9	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€6.48	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	4.3%	2%
Owner-occupiers	22.2%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€2,507	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€5,775	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€188,230	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€19,425	€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	€2,497	€2,497
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€718	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,780	€1,433
Rent as a share of netlower is better	28.7%	42.6%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	6.9	14.4
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€3,800	€4,449