If I Moved — Official BEA price-level comparisons.

Yearly salary in the first place U.S. dollars, before or after tax — use the same idea of “salary” on both sides. This is a price-level comparison, not a tax or budget model.

I live in

Second place

Popular comparisons (official metropolitan areas, or the U.S. average):

Or pick one place at a time:

For information only. Not financial or tax advice. Not housing or legal advice. These figures compare overall consumer price levels using official BEA Regional Price Parities for 2024. They are not a cost-of-living budget, a rent quote, a wage recommendation, or a reason to move. The BEA does not endorse this page.

The headline uses the all-items index. Other rows are the same salary put through that component’s price level only — they are not a weighted budget, and they are not the headline.
Price level	First place	Second place	Equivalent salary

How this is calculated

Regional Price Parities (RPPs) measure differences in price levels across states and metropolitan areas for a given year, expressed as a percentage of the overall national price level (U.S. = 100). Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024, released 19 February 2026. Housing price levels are estimated only for tenant-occupied housing. A state figure and a metro figure are different geographies — both are shown, and both are indexed to the same national average, and they are not interchangeable.

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