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• €4,000 in Leipzig leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,676 would in Berlin.

	16 wins Leipzig Saxony · Open profile	3 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	633,592	3,913,644
People per km²	2,128	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	11	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	9.2%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,026	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	460%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Leipzig, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,987	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€9.90	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+0.1%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€10	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€6.44	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	4.4%	2%
Owner-occupiers	13.5%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€2,850	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€6,899	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€209,090	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€22,624	€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	€2,592	€2,606
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€693	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,899	€1,541
Rent as a share of netlower is better	26.7%	40.9%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	7.5	13.8
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,000	€4,676