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Birmingham, AL

Hand-reviewed metro

Cost of living in Birmingham: $2,365 leftover

Cost of living in Birmingham, as leftover, is $2,365 a month for one adult, renting a 1-bedroom on local pay — take-home after tax minus rent of $1,106 and the rest of the modelled month. A price index would say non-housing costs run 9% below the US average. Alabama taxes wage income on a bracket schedule, plus a 1.00% city wage tax. Birmingham is a hand-reviewed metro.

Compare vs ChicagoHow the math works

These figures start from one adult in a one-bedroom, on local pay of about $98,500. Change the job, the pay, or how many bedrooms you need, and leftover changes. This is a monthly budget, not a cost-of-living index.

The month, in dollars

Take-home is $5,343 after tax. These lines are the modelled bills, then what is left. The monthly costs page is the same household inside the city hub.

Monthly costs and leftover in Birmingham
Rent$1,106
Groceries$364
Transport$553
Healthcare$410
Utilities$228
Childcare$0
Everything else$319
Total costs$2,978
Leftover$2,365

Sales tax is about 9.3%. Property tax is modelled at 0.41% of a $226,200 median home. Non-housing lines scale a national baseline by this metro's cost index (0.91).

Asking rent by bedroom

Turnover asking rent in Birmingham, not the Census median of occupied stock. Rent versus buying.

  • Studio

    $948

  • 1 bedroom

    $1,106

  • 2 bedrooms

    $1,317

  • 3 bedrooms

    $1,725

  • 4 bedrooms

    $2,041

Leftover in other metros nearby

Same household. Each leftover is take-home after that metro's tax minus its rent.

Leftover is take-home after federal, state and city wage tax, minus asking rent at the bedroom count you set, minus a modelled month of groceries, utilities, healthcare, transport and childcare. It is not a cost-of-living index and not a moving quote. Change the job, remote versus local pay, or bedrooms and the ranking is a different city. How the math works · Leftover vs a COL index · Why a cheaper COL% can still lose leftover.

Cost of living in Birmingham

What is the cost of living in Birmingham?

On the default one-adult, one-bedroom household, leftover in Birmingham, AL is about $2,365 a month after tax and rent. Asking rent is about $1,106 for a one-bedroom and $1,317 for a two-bedroom. That is a budget, not a cost-of-living index.

How does Birmingham compare with a cost-of-living index?

A price index would say non-housing costs run 9% below the US average. Leftover still depends on your tax bill and bedroom count, which an index does not. Birmingham is a hand-reviewed metro.

Where is take-home pay in Birmingham calculated?

The take-home page for Birmingham splits federal, payroll, state and local wage tax, then subtracts rent. The city paycheck page is the same leftover math with the map.

Other Alabama metros

Other metros in Alabama, with leftover, rent, and day-to-day pages.

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