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• €5,000 in Salzgitter leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €6,186 would in Berlin.

	14 wins Salzgitter Lower Saxony · Open profile	1 win Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	104,433	3,913,644
People per km²	465	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	10.1%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€5,017	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	440%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Salzgitter, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€1,502	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€6.44	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-11.4%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€6	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€5.60	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	7.1%	2%
Owner-occupiers	44.1%	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	€105,140	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€10,850	€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	€3,130	€3,130
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€451	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,679	€2,065
Rent as a share of netlower is better	14.4%	34%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	3.1	11.5
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€5,000	€6,186