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• €3,900 in Halle (Saale) leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,883 would in Berlin.

	15 wins Halle (Saale) Saxony-Anhalt · Open profile	2 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	226,186	3,913,644
People per km²	1,675	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	11	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	10%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€3,902	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	450%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Halle (Saale), Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,289	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€7.80	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+6.5%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€8	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€5.92	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	7.7%	2%
Owner-occupiers	16.8%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€2,022	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	–	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€160,230	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€16,536	€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	€546	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,006	€1,487
Rent as a share of netlower is better	21.4%	41.7%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	5.8	14.1
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€3,900	€4,883