Kansas City, MO → St. Louis, MO
You'd keep $60 more a month in St. Louis
+$720 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 696 households moved Kansas City → St. Louis (avg AGI $73,014). 839 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Kansas City | St. Louis | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $7,583 | $0 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,905 | $1,905 | $0 |
| Take-home pay | $5,679 | $5,679 | $0 |
| Rent | $1,184 | $1,144 | −$40 |
| Getting around | $551 | $545 | −$6 |
| Groceries | $372 | $368 | −$4 |
| Healthcare | $419 | $414 | −$5 |
| Utilities | $233 | $230 | −$3 |
| Everything else | $326 | $322 | −$4 |
| Left over | $2,596 | $2,656 | +$60 |
To break even in St. Louis, you'd need to earn
$90,000
Household gross, versus $91,000 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as Kansas City does now.
The tax difference alone
$0
A year, in state and local income tax. Effective rates: 25.1% in Kansas City, 25.1% in St. Louis.
More about St. Louis
Kansas City, MO in full
Genuinely low cost of living for a metro with real amenities.
St. Louis, MO in full
The lowest home prices of any metro over 2 million people.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from St. Louis on St. Louis wages.
St. Louis → Kansas City →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.