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What an ordinary month costs.

Compare the everyday costs of a household in two cities, category by category, then set them against take-home pay.

Your household

Children raise housing, groceries and add childcare and school costs.

Optional. Pick another city to see the difference per category.

Berlin

Demonstration data

1 adult, monthly, in US dollars

Berlin

$2,560

$31K a year

By category

  • Housing$1,450
  • Groceries$330
  • Utilities$280
  • Transport$60
  • Healthcare$60
  • Dining, leisure and other$380
Demonstration dataAs of October 2026Illustrative monthly values for one adult, scaled for your household.
Housing grows with household size, groceries and healthcare scale per person, and childcare and school are counted per child. Rounded to the nearest 10.

Against your take-home pay

Modeled calculation

Uses your scenario salary of €100,000 from the after-tax calculator, converted to US dollars at reference rates.

Each dot is about $67 a month. Warm dots stay with you.

  • Housing 27%
  • Groceries 6%
  • Utilities 5%
  • Transport 1%
  • Healthcare 1%
  • Dining, leisure and other 7%
  • Left over 52%
Take-home a month
$5,349
Living costs a month
$2,560
Left over
$2,789 remaining each month

Illustrative arithmetic, not a budget. Savings, one-off relocation costs, debt and a second income are not included. Change the salary