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Ithaca, NY
$1,943after tax and rent
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
On a $83,730 household paycheck in Ithaca.
Modelled metro
Move Score
60
Each row is 0–100. The Move Score is their weighted average, rounded, and it stops at 99. Rent is only in Housing. Jobs is off when the paycheck is the same in every city. Schools is off when there are no kids.
The 5 rows that are on. Their weighted average is 60.2, and that is the score, rounded, up to 99. Rows that are off stay out. The percent on each row is its weight. Tap a row to see what it measures. How the score is weighted
Example household
Example: $83,730, same pay in every city · One adult, renting a 1-bedroom
These figures are projections built from available public data. Conditions change, and the numbers may not reflect current prices, taxes, or immigration rules. Check official sources before you make decisions.
After tax and rent
$1,943
Home city
Not picked
Salary
$83,730
Same everywhere
Top things to do in Ithaca
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Photo: Alex Sergeev / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Schoellkopf Field
Stadium at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Photo: Mw13068 / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Allan H. Treman State Marine Park
State park and marina in Tompkins County, New York
Photo: Jerrye & Roy Klotz, MD / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Telluride House
Residential community of Cornell University
Photo: Ɱ / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Bradfield Hall
Building in New York, United States
Photo: stan stewart / Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0 Stewart Park
Park in Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Hoy Field
Baseball field at Cornell University, US
Stats
- Rent
- $1,870
- 2 bd median
- Take-home
- $5,311
- Per month
- Tax
- 24%
- Of pay
- Prices
- 1% below
- US, besides rent
Next
$1,943 / mo
The month
One earner. 1 bd.
See full breakdown
- Taxes$1,666
- Rent$1,571
- Other$1,797
- Left$1,943
Pay and tax, per year
- Gross household pay
- $83,730
- Federal income tax
- −$9,591
- Social Security and Medicare
- −$6,405
- State income tax (NY)
- −$4,000
- Take-home pay
- $63,734
- Effective tax rate
- 23.9%
Living costs, per month
- Rent, 1br
- $1,571
- Groceries
- $397
- Getting around
- $359
- Healthcare
- $446
- Utilities and internet
- $248
- Everything else
- $347
- Total spending
- $3,368
After tax and rent
$1,943 left/mo
Working remotely
If the paycheck stays the same
One adult, one bedroom, $120,000 held flat in every city. That leaves $3,890 a month here after tax and rent. One-bedroom rent in that math is $1,571.
- Work from home
- 19.0% of workers
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Home internet
- 78.3% of households
- Cable, fiber optic, or DSL
- Paid to move, remote job
- No open remote grant on this metro
Worked-from-home share is from ACS 2023 5-year. Internet is households with cable, fiber optic, or DSL, from ACS 2023 5-year.
The place
21 min commute. One car.
- Weather
- Not shown for this metro.
- Getting around
- One car
- Average commute
- 21 minutes each way
- Size
- 103k people
- Buying instead
- Median home $271,500. About $2,261/mo with 20% down.
- Taxes
- New York income tax tops out at 9.65%. Sales tax 8.5%, property tax 2.35%.
Schools
- Students
- 10,297
- Pupils per teacher
- 9.4
- Districts
- 8
- Ithaca City School District5,133 students
- Dryden Central School District1,352 students
- Lansing Central School District1,145 students
- Trumansburg Central School District989 students
- Groton Central School District801 students
NCES 2024-2025. The district count is every public district in the metro. The names are the largest 5.
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Take-home by job in Ithaca
- Registered nurse
- Software developer
- Elementary school teacher
- High school teacher
- Accountant / auditor
- Truck driver (heavy)
- Electrician
- Civil engineer
- Lawyer
- Police officer
- Financial analyst
- Pharmacist
- Product / project manager
- Physical therapist
- Nurse practitioner
- Physician
- Construction manager
- Data scientist
- Firefighter
- Mechanical engineer
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Questions
How is take-home pay in Ithaca calculated?
Ithaca is in New York, which taxes wage income. Take-home is a local salary minus federal tax, payroll tax, and that state tax. Leftover is what remains after rent and bills.
What does rent cost in Ithaca?
About $1,571 for a one-bedroom and $1,870 for a two-bedroom in Ithaca, NY. Ithaca averages 155 sunny days, a July high of 82°F, and a 21-minute commute.
How do I compare Ithaca with another city?
Put Ithaca next to another city on the same job and household. The gap is the tax bill and the rent.
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