Average Monthly Net Salary among the 20 Largest Cities in the USA, UK, Canada, and Australia [OC]

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  2. How do people afford to live in places like Sydney?
    Housing market horrible and salary is comparatively horrible as well.

    Sydney higher than San Fransico median housing prices ($1.6m) but on par with Atlanta’s net salary….

  3. San Francisco, or San Francisco Bay Area? I’m guessing the latter.

  4. Dallas higher than Boston? Maybe the average counts all the students with no salary?

  5. What is considered “net” here? That’s a highly objective amount, since two people could be making the exact same amount of gross salary, but one person could be deducing 2k/mo for their 401k whereas the other could be deducting nothing.

    I’m guessing this is taking into account all taxes/deductions except 401k? For example I’m relatively above average for gross income, but just average here for net income (probably because I deduct a lot for retirement)

  6. Overlay with average monthly rent for one person and highlight the difference

  7. Hilarious that Vancouver is nowhere on this list given the sky high COL. Everyone there brought generation wealth from wherever they emigrated from. Income is inconsequential in that case.

  8. I’d be interested to see how this compares to Europe

  9. Average is a bad measurement for the subject. <If you have a few billionaires, it looks like all people are making a lot of money.> Median is the measurement you want to use.

  10. What are the medians? Those averages are near 100k annual income for a lot of cities.

  11. Where the hell is Austin on this list? No way out doesn’t make an appearance.

    Edit: Nevermind. These are MSAs.

  12. How about the same chart but adjusted for purchase power?

  13. Did San Jose not get factored in? It surpassed SF and NYC in cost of living / housing a few years back.

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