About AffordWhere

Type in a salary. You'll see take-home pay after tax, the neighborhoods where the rent math actually works, and a rough sense of what's left at month's end. 175+ cities across 33 countries.

Every number traces back to an official source. Tax tables come from the government agency that writes them. Rent data comes from national housing statistics. No guesswork, no crowdsourcing.

The same salary buys very different lives in different cities. €5,000 in Berlin can leave you saving €1,200 a month. The same €5,000 in Amsterdam barely covers the bills. Most salary tools miss that, usually because they:

• Quote city-wide averages instead of showing neighborhoods you could actually rent in
• Ignore taxes, which eat 30–50% of a European gross salary
• Don't change the math when you're a couple, or a family, versus solo
• Lean on crowdsourced numbers that were stale a year ago

AffordWhere answers one question: once you've landed and the first payslip hits, what does this salary actually look like?

Right now that's 33 countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia-Pacific, each with its own tax calculator, neighborhood data, and cost-of-living inputs:

Europe (18 countries)

Americas (3 countries)

Asia-Pacific (12 countries)

Every number traces back to an official source. No crowdsourced estimates, no user-submitted figures:

• Tax calculations: 2026 tax tables from IRS, HMRC, Skatteverket, Agencia Tributaria, ATO, and 28 other national tax authorities.
• Rent data: Government housing statistics from Eurostat, Census Bureau, and ABS. We also link out to local rental marketplaces so you can sanity-check prices yourself.
• Cost of living: National statistical offices and OECD purchasing power data.
• Neighborhoods: Municipal open data portals and city-level statistical records.

View our complete data sources and licenses →

All the math happens in your browser. Your salary never leaves the page. We have nothing to delete because we never stored it in the first place.

Built by one person. No ads, no tracking, no premium tier, no investors. As long as it stays useful, it stays free.

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