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Pittsfield, MA
$2,025after tax and rent
Photo: Quintin Soloviev / Wikimedia, CC BY 4.0
On a $83,730 household paycheck in Pittsfield.
Modelled metro
So you know: homicide deaths in Pittsfield are under the US rate in this release, 2.9 versus 6.5 per 100,000. CDC via County Health Rankings, CDC NVSS 2017–2023 (CHR 2025 release).
Move Score
64
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 6 rows that are on. Their weighted average is 64.3, 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
$2,025
Home city
Not picked
Salary
$83,730
Same everywhere
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Stats
- Rent
- $1,562
- 2 bd median
- Take-home
- $5,314
- Per month
- Tax
- 24%
- Of pay
- Prices
- At US
- Besides rent
Next
$2,025 / mo
The month
One earner. 1 bd.
See full breakdown
- Taxes$1,664
- Rent$1,312
- Other$1,977
- Left$2,025
Pay and tax, per year
- Gross household pay
- $83,730
- Federal income tax
- −$9,591
- Social Security and Medicare
- −$6,405
- State income tax (MA)
- −$3,967
- Take-home pay
- $63,768
- Effective tax rate
- 23.8%
Living costs, per month
- Rent, 1br
- $1,312
- Groceries
- $400
- Getting around
- $527
- Healthcare
- $450
- Utilities and internet
- $250
- Everything else
- $350
- Total spending
- $3,289
After tax and rent
$2,025 left/mo
Working remotely
If the paycheck stays the same
One adult, one bedroom, $120,000 held flat in every city. That leaves $4,000 a month here after tax and rent. One-bedroom rent in that math is $1,312.
- Work from home
- 12.7% of workers
- ACS 2023 5-year
- Home internet
- 76.9% 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. A car per adult.
- Weather
- Not shown for this metro.
- Getting around
- A car per adult
- Average commute
- 21 minutes each way
- Size
- 128k people
- Buying instead
- Median home $283,800. About $2,131/mo with 20% down.
- Taxes
- Massachusetts income tax is a flat 5.00%. Sales tax 6.3%, property tax 1.37%.
Schools
- Students
- 14,434
- Pupils per teacher
- 10.1
- Districts
- 17
- Pittsfield4,873 students
- Central Berkshire1,537 students
- Mount Greylock1,177 students
- North Adams1,149 students
- Berkshire Hills1,131 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 Pittsfield
- 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 Pittsfield calculated?
Pittsfield is in Massachusetts, 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 Pittsfield?
About $1,312 for a one-bedroom and $1,562 for a two-bedroom in Pittsfield, MA. Pittsfield averages 184 sunny days, a July high of 83°F, and a 21-minute commute.
How do I compare Pittsfield with another city?
Put Pittsfield next to another city on the same job and household. The gap is the tax bill and the rent.
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