Find where your paycheck actually fits.
Enter your income, pick a few US cities, and see them plotted side by side — take-home, rent guideline and cost of living. Drill into any neighborhood, then build a monthly budget for the one you like best.
Your income
Enter salary or hourly pay. We'll estimate take-home per city — no need to pick a state up front.
Planning with a partner or roommate? Combine both incomes.
- Combined gross
- $0
- Est. take-home / yr
- $0
- Est. take-home / mo
- $0
Estimates use simplified federal brackets + FICA + top-line state rate.
Pick your cities
Choose up to three and see them plotted on the map. Step 4 compares them side by side.
Your household
How many adults, kids, and pets? Used to seed realistic defaults for groceries, transport, utilities and pet costs later on.
Tied to your income setup in Step 1.
Bumps default groceries; edit anything later.
Compare, side by side
This is home base — see take-home, rent guideline and cost-of-living per city. Pick one to build a full budget for.
Neighborhood detail
Pick a neighborhood from Step 4 to see rent by tier, purchase prices, vibe, walkability and links to real listings.
In Step 4, click any neighborhood on a comparison card. The full breakdown — rent tiers, purchase prices, walkability, a small city map and outbound links to Zillow, Apartments.com and NeighborhoodScout — will appear here.
Choose your housing
Rent or buy, apartment or house, studio through 4+ bedrooms — we'll estimate a monthly cost you can push into your budget.
Updated kitchen, in-unit laundry, walkable to some amenities. What most listings look like.
Your monthly budget
Auto-generated from a common rule — edits stage as pending until you click Apply Changes.
One-time moving costs
Separate from your monthly budget — plan the up-front spend to actually get there.
That's about — months of take-home income.
Save & share this scenario
Name a plan and come back to it. Everything is stored on this device.