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• €5,800 in Wolfsburg leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €6,663 would in Berlin.

	15 wins Wolfsburg Lower Saxony · Open profile	0 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	129,813	3,913,644
People per km²	634	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	10	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	7.1%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€5,775	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	360%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Wolfsburg, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€2,335	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€8.48	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-4.8%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€8	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€7.21	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	5.6%	2%
Owner-occupiers	41.9%	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	€163,450	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€16,868	€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	€3,531	€3,531
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€594	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€2,937	€2,466
Rent as a share of netlower is better	16.8%	30.2%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	4.3	10.2
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€5,800	€6,663