#32 of 66 for you
Tulsa, OK
Paid remote workers to move here, and the housing math is why it worked.
Left over monthly
$2,557
Versus Chicago
+$177/mo
+$2,124 a year
Local pay for your job
$84,429
Local wages run -10% vs national
Where the money goes
One earner filing as a household, at 1 bedrooms.
- Taxes$1,681
- Rent$971
- Other living costs$1,827
- Left over$2,557
Pay and tax, per year
- Gross household pay
- $84,429
- Federal income tax
- −$10,188
- Social Security and Medicare
- −$6,459
- State income tax (OK)
- −$3,520
- Take-home pay
- $64,262
- Effective tax rate
- 23.9%
Living costs, per month
- Rent, 1br
- $971
- Groceries
- $356
- Getting around
- $536
- Healthcare
- $401
- Utilities and internet
- $223
- Everything else
- $312
- Total spending
- $2,798
Left over each month
$7,036 gross, minus $1,681 in tax and $2,798 in living costs.
$2,557
What living here is like
- Weather
- 227 sunny days, 94°F in July, 27°F January nights
- Getting around
- Plan on a car per adult
- Average commute
- 22 minutes each way
- Size
- 1.0M people
- Buying instead
- Median home $204,400 — roughly $1,390/mo with 20% down, tax and upkeep
- Taxes
- Oklahoma income tax. Sales tax 9.0%, property tax 0.99%.
How it scores against what you said matters
- Money left over
- 63
- Sun and mild weather
- 71
- Access to the outdoors
- 54
- City life and culture
- 52
- A short commute
- 80
Chicago vs Tulsa, line by line
Same job, same household, both tax codes applied.
Open the comparison →Also worth a look
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No state income tax and high wages, offset by home prices and 150 sunny days.
- Austin, TX$3,176/mo
No income tax, but property taxes are among the steepest anywhere.
- Houston, TX$3,159/mo
The cheapest housing of any top-10 metro, paid for in property tax and humidity.
- Dallas, TX$3,044/mo
No income tax, endless new construction, and a 1.5% property tax bill.