Spokane, WA → Phoenix, AZ
Moving to Phoenix costs you $7 a month
−$84 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 371 households moved Spokane → Phoenix (avg AGI $80,299). 237 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Spokane | Phoenix | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,083 | $7,550 | +$467 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,401 | $1,698 | +$297 |
| Take-home pay | $5,682 | $5,852 | +$170 |
| Rent | $1,206 | $1,276 | +$70 |
| Getting around | $538 | $586 | +$48 |
| Groceries | $380 | $396 | +$16 |
| Healthcare | $428 | $446 | +$18 |
| Utilities | $238 | $248 | +$10 |
| Everything else | $333 | $347 | +$14 |
| Left over | $2,561 | $2,554 | −$7 |
To break even in Phoenix, you'd need to earn
$90,500
Household gross, versus $85,000 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as Spokane does now.
The tax difference alone
−$1,900
A year, in state and local income tax. Effective rates: 19.8% in Spokane, 22.5% in Phoenix.
More about Phoenix
Spokane, WA in full
No income tax, real seasons, and Seattle's outdoors without Seattle's rent.
Phoenix, AZ in full
A 2.5% flat income tax, cheap housing for a big metro, and a genuinely dangerous July.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Phoenix on Phoenix wages.
Phoenix → Spokane →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.