Moving abroad? See where your salary actually goes furthest.

Compare real take-home pay across countries, test rent and cost of living, and turn the result into a full financial plan.

Relocation Finance Hub

Compare real purchasing power, not just gross salary.

See where your salary really goes further after taxes, rent, and living costs.

Start with your salary

Up to +1,000 EUR per month can sit between countries

Calculate take-home pay -> find the best country -> build your plan

What do you want to find out?

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Your relocation workflow

One clear flow: validate take-home pay, test location fit, then build the plan.

Step 1 - Net baseline

Calculate your real take-home pay

Start with your gross-to-net case so every later decision has a reliable base.

Calculate net pay ->

Step 2 - Location fit

See where your salary really goes further

Compare the same salary across countries and spot differences in tax, rent, and purchasing power.

Compare the same salary

or analyze more deeply:

Check cost of living Check rent pressure

Step 3 - Execution

Turn your salary into a plan

Plan spending, savings, and next decisions based on your result.

Build your budget

Keep building:

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What you get right away

Where do you really keep more net pay?
How much stays after rent?
What can you actually save?

Smart Facts For Better Decisions

Choose a lens and see the numbers that matter for relocation, net income, cash flow, and long-term planning.

Net Income & Taxes

Germany has one of the highest tax wedges in the OECD: up to 47.9% for single workers. Less than half of employer costs reach the employee. (OECD Taxing Wages 2025)

Top FAQs before you start

Short answers to the most common onboarding questions.

Start with Cost of Living for the broad affordability question, then move to Rent vs Income for the housing lens, and use TaxCompare for direct cross-country salary translation.

Without login, your inputs stay local in your browser. Data is only saved on our servers when you are logged in and actively use cloud actions such as save/load.

Yes. Cockpit is account-based. Only logged-in users can securely sync and load their data across devices.

Yes. On the prioritized salary, cost-of-living, and rent pages you can switch between local median gross benchmarks and your own gross salary input.

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Additional Analyses And Tools

Public-finance content, simulations, and market analysis stay deliberately secondary below the guided flow.

Public Finance

Explore Germany's 2026 federal budget

Inspect revenue and spending with interactive drilldowns across plan, chapter, and title levels.

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Tax Simulation

Joint Tax Filing Simulation

Simulation of the fiscal effects of removing joint tax filing (Ehegattensplitting) in German tax law.

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Market Data & Analysis

Price Charts & Analysis

Track price movements of investment classes and explore selected macroeconomic analyses and charts.

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