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• €4,300 in Saarbrücken leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,984 would in Berlin.

	14 wins Saarbrücken Saarland · Open profile	4 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	182,859	3,913,644
People per km²	1,092	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	12	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	11.7%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,305	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	6.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	490%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Saarbrücken, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,184	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€10.12	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-3.2%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€9	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€6.71	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	6.3%	2%
Owner-occupiers	35.7%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€1,578	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€3,317	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€152,880	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€18,070	€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	€708	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,057	€1,701
Rent as a share of netlower is better	25.6%	38.5%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	5.2	13
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,300	€4,984