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Seattle, WA

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Cost of living in Seattle: $3,409 leftover

Cost of living in Seattle, as leftover, is $3,409 a month for one adult, renting a 1-bedroom on local pay — take-home after tax minus rent of $1,758 and the rest of the modelled month. A price index would say non-housing costs run 13% above the US average. Washington has no state income tax. Seattle 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 $7,298 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 Seattle
Rent$1,758
Groceries$452
Transport$493
Healthcare$508
Utilities$283
Childcare$0
Everything else$395
Total costs$3,889
Leftover$3,409

Sales tax is about 9.4%. Property tax is modelled at 0.88% of a $673,500 median home. Non-housing lines scale a national baseline by this metro's cost index (1.13).

Asking rent by bedroom

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

  • Studio

    $1,507

  • 1 bedroom

    $1,758

  • 2 bedrooms

    $2,093

  • 3 bedrooms

    $2,742

  • 4 bedrooms

    $3,244

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 Seattle

What is the cost of living in Seattle?

On the default one-adult, one-bedroom household, leftover in Seattle, WA is about $3,409 a month after tax and rent. Asking rent is about $1,758 for a one-bedroom and $2,093 for a two-bedroom. That is a budget, not a cost-of-living index.

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

A price index would say non-housing costs run 13% above the US average. Leftover still depends on your tax bill and bedroom count, which an index does not. Seattle is a hand-reviewed metro.

Where is take-home pay in Seattle calculated?

The take-home page for Seattle 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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