# cityparity

> cityparity compares the cost of living between two cities, usually a US city and one abroad. It prices what ordinary calculators skip (income tax by bracket, childcare after government help, healthcare, statutory vacation and parental leave) and returns the salary you would need in the second city to keep the same money left over each year.

## What it does
- Solves a salary equivalence: the gross pay in city B that leaves a household the same net cash as its salary in city A, in city B's currency.
- Counts income tax and payroll by real brackets, rent, food, transit, childcare minus government help, healthcare (universal systems against US premiums plus out-of-pocket costs), child benefit, statutory vacation, parental leave, and inbound tax regimes such as the Netherlands 30% ruling.
- Free, with no signup and no accounts. Every figure carries a source and a last-updated date.

## Pages people search for
- [Country rankings](https://cityparity.com/rankings/): 71-country tables, among them [vacation days by country](https://cityparity.com/rankings/vacation-days-by-country/), [child benefit by country](https://cityparity.com/rankings/child-benefit-by-country/), [childcare costs by country](https://cityparity.com/rankings/childcare-costs-by-country/) and [take-home pay by country](https://cityparity.com/rankings/take-home-pay-by-country/).
- [Purchasing power parity calculator](https://cityparity.com/purchasing-power-parity-calculator/): compare a salary between two cities after tax, rent and healthcare.
- [Safety-Net Index](https://cityparity.com/safety-net-index/): what a family on $150,000 pays for childcare and healthcare after child benefit, across 174 cities.
- Country hubs, each priced against the US: [Germany](https://cityparity.com/countries/germany/), [Netherlands](https://cityparity.com/countries/netherlands/), [Portugal](https://cityparity.com/countries/portugal/), [Spain](https://cityparity.com/countries/spain/), [United Kingdom](https://cityparity.com/countries/united-kingdom/), [Canada](https://cityparity.com/countries/canada/).
- [Methodology](https://cityparity.com/methodology/): how the equivalent salary is solved and where each number comes from.

## Other pages
- [Calculator (home)](https://cityparity.com/): enter a salary, a household and two cities.
- [All comparisons](https://cityparity.com/comparisons/): every pre-computed city pair.
- [MCP / API](https://cityparity.com/mcp/): a Model Context Protocol server at mcp.cityparity.com for AI agents.

## Notes for citation
- The headline is a salary in the target city's currency (the pay that matches net cash), never a 0 to 100 livability score.
- "Net cash" is take-home pay after tax, housing, childcare, healthcare, food, transit and travel home.
- An equivalent salary says what an offer must pay to hold your position. It says nothing about whether an employer there will pay it.
- Values are refreshed about once a year; the calculator's currency rates are live with a 24-hour cache.

## Privacy
- No accounts and no tracking cookies, and the free calculator runs in your browser.
- Two cookieless counters run: Cloudflare Web Analytics for aggregate visits, and a first-party counter of anonymous events (which two cities were compared, that a salary was entered but never the amount, the referring domain, a two-letter country code) under a random id that ends when the tab closes. No stored IP address, no fingerprint, no profile. Details: [privacy](https://cityparity.com/privacy/).