Cities head to head

Worked through as a single earner in tax class I, no church, the average Zusatzbeitrag, no children. The salary calculator takes your real situation.

• €5,600 in Munich leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,519 would in Berlin.

	6 wins Munich Bavaria · Open profile	13 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	1,505,036	3,913,644
People per km²	4,844	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	13	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	5.7%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€5,600	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	3.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	8%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	490%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Munich, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€8,351	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€23.08	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-0.7%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€21	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€12.89	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	2.4%	2%
Owner-occupiers	24%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€7,600	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€10,400	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€584,570	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€51,559	€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	€3,432	€3,432
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€1,616	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,817	€2,367
Rent as a share of netlower is better	47.1%	31%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	15.4	10.5
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€5,600	€4,519