Is clear: New York and Oslo are the most expensive cities of the world, but in Swiss bank metropolis Zurich is earned net clearly at most.
That is the result of a world-wide price and wage comparison, which major bank UBS now published Swiss and which shows, in which cities one at most content with home takes.

Therefore Zurich takes the first place with the net wages, followed from Geneva and New York. The gross wages are just as high as into Swiss economic centers, but enjoy Switzerland the advantage of deeper taxes and deliveries in Scandinavia.

So the gross wages in Copenhagen have nearly the level of Zurich, but the net wages lie because of high deliveries whole 30 per cent lower.

The first German cities in the ranking are Munich at place nine and Frankfurt at place 14.

To the development of the wages in Germany Gerit Heinz, said Leiter Wealth management Research of the UBS Germany AG to BILD.de: „In the past years the wages and salaries rose in Germany noticeably more slowly than in other countries of Europe. This is a reason for the fact that the private consumption developed so weakly and could not with the clearly growing exports keep up. In view of the comparatively high competitive ability of German enterprises and the improved overall economic surrounding field in Germany a certain clearance for wage increases opens. Thus also the domestic economic activity could be supported and the upswing be verstetigt. “

The difference to the developing countries is serious. In addition it means in the BILD.de available study: „Due to the saliently deeper wage level the internal purchasing power of the wages is to than 80 per cent in different cities of rising countries still more under the level of Zurich. “

Swiss restaurant economics Zurich and Geneva reserve the seats three and four of the global city list with the highest life costs. From Germany Munich follows 21 after place 18 and Frankfurt on that. Place.

The most inexpensive places on the 73 metropolises comprehensive list of the UBS are Bucharest (Romania), Manila (the Philippines) and Bombay (India).

Important result of the investigation: The differences of the cost of living between east and Western Europe decrease after the observations of the UBS.