№ 01India
Delhi
- Population
- 32,900,000
- Currency
- ₹
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Lisbon & Berlin
31 May 2026
Lisbon & Berlin
31 May 2026
What a salary is worth depends entirely on where you stand.
€60,000 in Lisbon is not €60,000 in Amsterdam. A senior engineer's take-home in Berlin, after social charges, will not match the same figure in Warsaw — nor will the price of bread, rent, or a tram fare. WorthOf assembles the numbers, the brackets and the indices that quietly govern modern working life.
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Countries Indexed
47
Cities Reported
020+
Tax Brackets Tracked
412
FX Pairs · ECB
31
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№ 02Turkey
Istanbul
- Population
- 15,500,000
- Currency
- ₺
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№ 03Japan
Tokyo
- Population
- 13,960,000
- Currency
- ¥
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№ 04India
Mumbai
- Population
- 12,500,000
- Currency
- ₹
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№ 05India
Bangalore
- Population
- 12,300,000
- Currency
- ₹
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№ 06Brazil
São Paulo
- Population
- 12,300,000
- Currency
- R$
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№ 07Indonesia
Jakarta
- Population
- 10,500,000
- Currency
- Rp
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№ 08Thailand
Bangkok
- Population
- 10,500,000
- Currency
- ฿
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№ 09India
Hyderabad
- Population
- 10,000,000
- Currency
- ₹
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№ 10South Korea
Seoul
- Population
- 9,700,000
- Currency
- ₩
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№ 11Mexico
Mexico City
- Population
- 9,200,000
- Currency
- $
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№ 12Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh City
- Population
- 9,000,000
- Currency
- ₫
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№ 13United Kingdom
London
- Population
- 8,982,000
- Currency
- £
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№ 14United States
New York
- Population
- 8,800,000
- Currency
- $
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№ 15Vietnam
Hanoi
- Population
- 8,000,000
- Currency
- ₫
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№ 16Hong Kong
Hong Kong
- Population
- 7,500,000
- Currency
- HK$
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№ 17India
Pune
- Population
- 7,400,000
- Currency
- ₹
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№ 18Colombia
Bogotá
- Population
- 7,400,000
- Currency
- $
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№ 19Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
- Population
- 6,700,000
- Currency
- R$
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№ 20Singapore
Singapore
- Population
- 5,900,000
- Currency
- S$
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I.Department
Salary, after the state
Net-of-tax modelling for 47 jurisdictions. Brackets, social-security ceilings, and the quiet exceptions — 13th salaries, regional surcharges, married-filing oddities.
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The price of a city
Rent, groceries, transit, gym, internet — month-over-month, in source currency and in euros. Field-reported, cross-checked, dated.
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Where to base oneself
Tools for the remote-working class: tax residency thresholds, digital-nomad visa terms, time-zone overlap with home offices.
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