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• €4,300 in Potsdam leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,514 would in Berlin.

	11 wins Potsdam Brandenburg · Open profile	4 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	185,137	3,913,644
People per km²	983	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	6.2%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,254	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	6.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	455%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Potsdam, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€5,236	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€13.60	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+2.5%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€13	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€7.85	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	2.5%	2%
Owner-occupiers	17.6%	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	€366,520	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€43,323	€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	€2,766	€2,766
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€952	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,814	€1,701
Rent as a share of netlower is better	34.4%	38.5%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	12.3	13
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,300	€4,514