Take-home pay in 387 US metros

Each page splits federal, payroll, state and local wage tax, then leftover after rent. A salary table runs $60k, $80k, $120k and $160k through the same calculator, earned in that metro.

The figure beside each name is the default city-page household: one adult, one bedroom, local pay, starting from Chicago. Job-specific take-home lives on the jobs pages. Hand-reviewed metros say so. The rest are labelled modelled.

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

387 metros. Cost of living by metro · City directory