Boston, MA → Hartford, CT
You'd keep $512 more a month in Hartford
+$6,144 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 976 households moved Boston → Hartford (avg AGI $99,174). 1,432 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Boston | Hartford | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $9,042 | $8,106 | −$935 |
| Income and payroll tax | $2,416 | $2,088 | −$328 |
| Take-home pay | $6,626 | $6,018 | −$608 |
| Rent | $2,619 | $1,614 | −$1,005 |
| Getting around | $445 | $519 | +$74 |
| Groceries | $464 | $412 | −$52 |
| Healthcare | $522 | $464 | −$58 |
| Utilities | $290 | $258 | −$32 |
| Everything else | $406 | $361 | −$45 |
| Left over | $1,880 | $2,392 | +$512 |
To break even in Hartford, you'd need to earn
$88,000
Household gross, versus $108,500 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as Boston does now.
The tax difference alone
+$605
A year, in state and local income tax. Effective rates: 26.7% in Boston, 25.8% in Hartford.
More about Hartford
Boston, MA in full
Great pay in medicine and research, brutal winters, tight housing stock.
Hartford, CT in full
Insurance-industry wages, cheap houses, and a 1.78% property tax rate.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Hartford on Hartford wages.
Hartford → Boston →Rent is Zillow's asking rent for each metro; taxes and living costs are modelled. An estimate, not a quote or tax advice. How this is calculated.