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• €5,500 in Frankfurt am Main leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €5,084 would in Berlin.

	5 wins Frankfurt am Main Hesse · Open profile	10 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	760,656	3,913,644
People per km²	3,063	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	7.1%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€5,469	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	6%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	460%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€6,215	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€18.20	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-2.7%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€16	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€10.58	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	3.1%	2%
Owner-occupiers	20.1%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	–	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€7,820	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€435,050	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€46,681	€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	€3,383	€3,383
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€1,274	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,109	€2,318
Rent as a share of netlower is better	37.7%	31.5%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	11.9	10.6
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€5,500	€5,084