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• €4,400 in Kiel leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,997 would in Berlin.

	12 wins Kiel Schleswig-Holstein · Open profile	3 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	251,842	3,913,644
People per km²	2,123	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	8%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,441	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	6.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	450%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Kiel, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€3,243	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€10.78	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-2.5%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€10	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€7.64	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	2.1%	2%
Owner-occupiers	25.1%	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	€227,010	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€26,833	€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	€2,819	€2,819
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€755	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,064	€1,754
Rent as a share of netlower is better	26.8%	37.8%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	7.5	12.8
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,400	€4,997