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• €3,400 in Gera leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,574 would in Berlin.

	15 wins Gera Thuringia · Open profile	3 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	95,162	3,913,644
People per km²	625	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	11	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	10.5%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€3,444	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	464%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Gera, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€1,475	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€6.18	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+6.1%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€6	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€5.13	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	11.3%	2%
Owner-occupiers	23.1%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€983	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€4,080	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€103,250	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€10,655	€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	€2,278	€2,278
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€433	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,845	€1,213
Rent as a share of netlower is better	19%	46.7%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	4.2	15.8
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€3,400	€4,574