Enter your city and salary. Get a clear verdict on whether you should move — and which cities would genuinely improve your savings, career, or lifestyle.
Tell us where you are and what you earn. Select your priority: save more, career growth, or better balance.
CityVerdict analyses 77 cities across savings potential, career opportunity, and financial pressure — weighted to your priority.
See your move verdict, best-fit alternatives, and the financial impact of staying vs moving over 1 and 3 years.
Stay, Consider, or Strong move — based on your priorities, not generic rankings.
Ranked alternatives for savings, career, and overall fit. See what you're missing.
Direct comparison: your current city against the best alternative.
What you gain, what you lose — in plain English. No ambiguity.
Simple financial projection of staying vs moving. What it actually means over time.
Run a direct head-to-head comparison between any two cities in our dataset.
Every salary and cost benchmark comes from national statistics agencies — not crowdsourcing, not estimates. Opportunity and lifestyle indices are scored heuristics, clearly labelled as such.
See methodology →| ONS | UK Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE 2025) |
| Destatis | German earnings structure survey (2024) |
| INE | Spanish earnings structure survey (EES 2024) |
| INSEE | French earnings structure survey (DADS 2024) |
| CBS | Statistics Netherlands earnings survey (2024) |
| Stats Canada | Labour Force Survey (2024) |
| ABS | Australian earnings and hours survey (2024) |
| OECD IDD | Income Distribution Database — supplementary |
| Cost and rent data cross-referenced with Numbeo for cities without full official coverage | |
Pick any two cities for a direct head-to-head on salary, cost of living, career opportunity, and 3-year financial impact.
Real outputs from the tool — different salaries, different priorities.
We score your current city and all alternatives on your chosen priority. If the best alternative scores more than 5 points higher: Consider moving. More than 15 points: Strong move opportunity. Otherwise: Stay.
It's a simple model based on salary and cost indices — not a financial plan. It gives you directional clarity, not precision. Tax, relocation costs, and individual circumstances will all affect the real number.
Salary and income benchmarks come from ONS, Destatis, INE, INSEE, CBS, Statistics Canada, ABS, and the OECD. Cost and rent data uses the same official datasets as SpendVerdict. Opportunity and lifestyle indices are scored heuristics — see our methodology page.
Yes — use the Compare tool to run a direct head-to-head between any two cities. The URL is shareable so you can send your comparison to others.