Zurich and Geneva may be the most expensive places in the world to buy your meat and veg but it’ll still pay off as the two Swiss cities top a new survey of the highest disposable incomes in the world.
The respective financial hubs for German and French-speaking Switzerland both come out ahead of San Francisco for a two-income household renting a three-bedroom flat, in Deutsche Bank’s 2026 survey of 69 global cities. Zurich salaries achieve a whopping 476 and Geneva 457 to New York’s indexed baseline of 100. Luxembourg and Boston rounded out the top five in terms of purchasing power while Manila finishes bottom.