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• €4,800 in Ulm leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €5,036 would in Berlin.

	18 wins Ulm Baden-Württemberg · Open profile	1 win Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	130,288	3,913,644
People per km²	1,098	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	12	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	4.4%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€4,769	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	8%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	360%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Ulm, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€4,264	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€13.48	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	+3.9%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€12	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€8.48	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	3.2%	2%
Owner-occupiers	35.2%	16.4%
Paid price per m², resold flatslower is better	€3,689	€6,450
Paid price per m², new flatslower is better	€6,496	€8,108
A 70 m² flat, to buylower is better	€298,480	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€30,803	€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	€3,027	€3,027
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€944	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,084	€1,963
Rent as a share of netlower is better	31.2%	35.2%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	9.1	11.9
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€4,800	€5,036