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• €3,500 in Zwickau leaves you, after tax and a 70 m² flat, what €4,622 would in Berlin.

	14 wins Zwickau Saxony · Open profile	3 wins Berlin Berlin · Open profile	Add a city
The place
Population	86,405	3,913,644
People per km²	842	4,392
Public holidays a yearhigher is better	11	10
Work and pay
Unemploymentlower is better	8.9%	10.4%
Median gross payhigher is better	€3,481	€4,459
Taxes
Grunderwerbsteuerlower is better	5.5%	6%
Church taxlower is better	9%	9%
Gewerbesteuer Hebesatzlower is better	450%	410%
Housingimmoportal.com: Zwickau, Berlin
Asking price per m²lower is better	€1,070	€5,534
Asking rent per m²lower is better	€6.44	€15.21
Prices, last 12 months	-25.3%	-1%
Asking rent per m² (BBSR)lower is better	€6	€17
Rent in existing tenancies per m²lower is better	€5.20	€7.67
Vacant flatshigher is better	13.1%	2%
Owner-occupiers	24.5%	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	€74,900	€387,380
Closing costs on itlower is better	€8,104	€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	€2,321	€2,333
A 70 m² flat, cold rentlower is better	€451	€1,065
Left after renthigher is better	€1,870	€1,269
Rent as a share of netlower is better	19.4%	45.6%
Years of net to buy that flatlower is better	3	15.4
Gross that leaves the same as the first city	€3,500	€4,622