City Salary Comparator (PPP)
Compare what your salary is actually worth across cities and countries — using real cost-of-living and rent indices, not just FX rates.
Your Current City & Salary
City
Annual Salary (INR)
≈ ₹30.00 L
Cost Index (Bengaluru): 22.4 (NYC = 100)
Cities to Compare
6 selected
India
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Mumbai
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Delhi
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Bengaluru
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Gurugram
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Hyderabad
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Pune
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Chennai
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Kolkata
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Ahmedabad
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Indore
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Jaipur
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Kochi
Americas
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New York
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San Francisco
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Austin
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Seattle
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Toronto
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Vancouver
Europe
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London
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Manchester
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Berlin
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Munich
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Amsterdam
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Dublin
APAC
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Singapore
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Dubai
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Tokyo
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Sydney
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Melbourne
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Bangkok
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Manila
₹30.00 L/yr in 🇮🇳 Bengaluru…
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Berlin
Germany
Equivalent lifestyle salary
€84,245
€84,245/yr
If you just FX-converted:
€32,609
Cost ratio vs Bengaluru:
2.58×
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Significantly worse off
-61% purchasing power
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Dubai
UAE
Equivalent lifestyle salary
د.إ359,665
د.إ359,665/yr
If you just FX-converted:
د.إ127,660
Cost ratio vs Bengaluru:
2.82×
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Significantly worse off
-65% purchasing power
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Austin
USA
Equivalent lifestyle salary
$106,904
$106,904/yr
If you just FX-converted:
$35,294
Cost ratio vs Bengaluru:
3.03×
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Significantly worse off
-67% purchasing power
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London
UK
Equivalent lifestyle salary
£96,820
£96,820/yr
If you just FX-converted:
£27,778
Cost ratio vs Bengaluru:
3.49×
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Significantly worse off
-71% purchasing power
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Singapore
Singapore
Equivalent lifestyle salary
S$187,719
S$187,719/yr
If you just FX-converted:
S$47,619
Cost ratio vs Bengaluru:
3.94×
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Significantly worse off
-75% purchasing power
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New York
USA
Equivalent lifestyle salary
$157,212
$157,212/yr
If you just FX-converted:
$35,294
Cost ratio vs Bengaluru:
4.45×
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Significantly worse off
-78% purchasing power
Monthly Cost-of-Living Comparison
| City | 1BHK Rent (Centre) | Meal (Mid-range) | Groceries | Transport Pass | Internet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
🇮🇳 BengaluruYou | ₹32,000 | ₹550 | ₹7,500 | ₹1,300 | ₹900 |
🇩🇪 Berlin | €1,400 | €17 | €300 | €60 | €35 |
🇦🇪 Dubai | د.إ7,000 | د.إ60 | د.إ1,600 | د.إ350 | د.إ380 |
🇺🇸 Austin | $1,900 | $22 | $480 | $41 | $75 |
🇬🇧 London | £2,200 | £20 | £350 | £188 | £35 |
🇸🇬 Singapore | S$3,500 | S$18 | S$450 | S$128 | S$50 |
🇺🇸 New York | $3,800 | $30 | $600 | $132 | $80 |
City Salary Comparator — What Your Salary Is Actually Worth
A simple FX conversion lies. ₹30 LPA in Bengaluru is not the same as $35,000 in Austin — even though that’s what the dollar rate suggests. The City Salary Comparator uses real cost-of-living and rent indices to tell you what your salary is actually worth — measured in lifestyle, not exchange rates. Compare ₹ ↔ $ ↔ € ↔ £ ↔ S$ ↔ AED ↔ ¥ across 30+ cities and find out whether a job offer in another city or country is actually a step up or a step down.
FX Rate vs Purchasing Power Parity
At today’s rate, ₹85 = $1 — so ₹30 LPA naively converts to about $35,000. But a 1-bedroom apartment in central Bengaluru costs ₹32,000/month while the same in Austin costs $1,900 (≈ ₹1,61,500). A mid-range restaurant meal: ₹550 vs $22 (≈ ₹1,870). Adjust for those real prices and the lifestyle equivalent of ₹30L Bengaluru is closer to $107,000 in Austin — roughly 3× the FX-only number.
That’s the gap between a market-rate conversion and a Purchasing-Power-Parity (PPP) adjusted one — and it matters enormously for relocation decisions, job offers, and family budgeting across borders.
How The Comparison Works
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Pick the city you currently live in.
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Enter your annual salary in local currency.
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Tick the cities you want to compare against.
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For each target city we compute: (your salary in INR) × (target cost index ÷ source cost index) and convert back to the target currency.
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You get the salary that delivers the same lifestyle in each city — alongside the naive FX-only number.
When You’d Use This
Comparing job offers across cities
"₹40L Mumbai vs $130k Seattle vs €90k Berlin — which actually buys the better life?"
Tier-1 to tier-2 city moves
Bengaluru to Indore: how much can your salary drop while keeping the same lifestyle?
Remote-work geo-arbitrage
How much could you save by moving from San Francisco to Austin or Bangkok on the same salary?
Negotiating relocation packages
Show HR the real PPP-adjusted equivalent when discussing an internal transfer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is the lifestyle-equivalent salary so different from the FX rate?
Currency exchange rates reflect international capital flows, trade balances and monetary policy — not the local cost of bread, rent or a haircut. Purchasing Power Parity adjusts for actual prices people pay locally. Cities with strong currencies but expensive everything (NYC, London, Singapore) require much higher gross salaries to buy the same lifestyle that a smaller salary buys in Bengaluru, Bangkok or Indore.
What exactly goes into the Cost-of-Living index?
Numbeo's index is built from crowd-sourced prices for groceries, restaurants, transport, utilities, sports, leisure and consumer goods. We use it as published. Rent is tracked separately because it varies far more across cities than other categories — our combined index is weighted 65% cost-of-living + 35% rent, which approximates a typical household budget.
Does this account for taxes?
No — the comparison is on gross salary. Income tax differs enormously between countries (10–45% effective) and would obscure the pure cost-of-living signal. For a precise net-of-tax comparison, compute the post-tax salary in each city using a local tax calculator and feed that as the input here.
Why isn't my city listed?
We started with the 30 most-searched destination cities for Indian salaried professionals and global tech workers. If your city is missing and you'd like it added, send feedback — adding a new city only requires three numbers (Numbeo COL index, rent index, FX rate).
How fresh is the data?
Cost-of-living indices and FX rates are updated periodically and reflect Q1 2026 snapshots. Significant currency moves and inflation cycles will shift the numbers — treat the output as accurate to within ±10%, which is well inside the range of personal lifestyle variation anyway.
Why does the calculator use a 65/35 weighting for cost-of-living and rent?
Studies of household budgets in developed countries put rent at 30–40% of disposable income for most middle-class earners. 35% is the midpoint of that range and matches how Numbeo and the OECD typically combine their indices.