Salary calculator
Compare how far your salary goes across US cities. We'll show the equivalent salary plus a per-category breakdown of housing, groceries, transportation, and more.
Equivalent salary
Your $100,000 in New York = $90,375 in Austin
−$802
You'd have roughly $802 extra per month in Austin at the same salary.
Green bars = savings in Austin. Red bars = more expensive in Austin.
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See full New York vs Austin comparison →Your equivalent salary is computed from the ratio of the two cities' cost-of-living indices, so a higher index means you need proportionally more income to maintain the same standard of living.
We weight each category using typical household-spending shares (housing 33%, groceries 13%, utilities 7%, transportation 17%, healthcare 8%) from BLS Consumer Expenditure Survey data.
City-level rent and income figures come from the US Census American Community Survey 5-Year estimates. Category indices are derived from BLS CPI-U data for each metro, scaled to the US city average.