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Hilton Head Island, SC

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Cost of living in Hilton Head Island: $1,758 leftover

Cost of living in Hilton Head Island, as leftover, is $1,758 a month for one adult, renting a 1-bedroom on local pay — take-home after tax minus rent of $1,483 and the rest of the modelled month. A price index would say non-housing costs sit near the US average (index 0.96). South Carolina taxes wage income on a bracket schedule. Hilton Head Island is a modelled metro: rent, wages and prices come from Zillow, Census and BEA, not a hand-written city essay.

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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 $5,189 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 Hilton Head Island
Rent$1,483
Groceries$384
Transport$556
Healthcare$432
Utilities$240
Childcare$0
Everything else$336
Total costs$3,431
Leftover$1,758

Sales tax is about 7.5%. Property tax is modelled at 0.51% of a $393,100 median home. Non-housing lines scale a national baseline by this metro's cost index (0.96).

Asking rent by bedroom

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

  • Studio

    $1,272

  • 1 bedroom

    $1,483

  • 2 bedrooms

    $1,766

  • 3 bedrooms

    $2,313

  • 4 bedrooms

    $2,737

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 Hilton Head Island

What is the cost of living in Hilton Head Island?

On the default one-adult, one-bedroom household, leftover in Hilton Head Island, SC is about $1,758 a month after tax and rent. Asking rent is about $1,483 for a one-bedroom and $1,766 for a two-bedroom. That is a budget, not a cost-of-living index.

How does Hilton Head Island compare with a cost-of-living index?

A price index would say non-housing costs sit near the US average (index 0.96). Leftover still depends on your tax bill and bedroom count, which an index does not. Hilton Head Island is a modelled metro: rent, wages and prices come from Zillow, Census and BEA, not a hand-written city essay.

Where is take-home pay in Hilton Head Island calculated?

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

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