San Jose, CA → St. Louis, MO
You'd keep $714 more a month in St. Louis
+$8,568 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 66 households moved San Jose → St. Louis (avg AGI $175,379). 101 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | San Jose | St. Louis | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $10,625 | $7,578 | −$3,047 |
| Income and payroll tax | $3,124 | $1,903 | −$1,221 |
| Take-home pay | $7,501 | $5,675 | −$1,826 |
| Rent | $2,990 | $1,144 | −$1,846 |
| Getting around | $746 | $545 | −$201 |
| Groceries | $504 | $368 | −$136 |
| Healthcare | $567 | $414 | −$153 |
| Utilities | $315 | $230 | −$85 |
| Everything else | $441 | $322 | −$119 |
| Left over | $1,938 | $2,652 | +$714 |
To break even in St. Louis, you'd need to earn
$77,500
Household gross, versus $127,500 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as San Jose does now.
The tax difference alone
+$3,628
A year, in state and local income tax. Effective rates: 29.4% in San Jose, 25.1% in St. Louis.
More about St. Louis
San Jose, CA in full
The highest salaries in the country, almost entirely cancelled out by the highest rents.
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 → San Jose →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.