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Career Planning: Choose Your Path

Why You Need to Consider Cost of Living

Cost of living definition - amount of money an individual needs to maintain their standard of living

Best Places to Live - Cost of Living Calculator

Use this link to get a custom cost of living comparison that includes housing, food, utilities, transportation, healthcare costs (including premiums and common surgeries), taxes, and child care prices.

Cost of Living in 2022 Tool: What it is, how to calculate it, and how to compare 

This tool helps you understand how much more or less it might cost to live in a different location.

How to research cost of living? https://www.wikihow.life/Compare-Cost-of-Living-Between-Cities  

When you enter your current location and salary (or hourly wage), the tool will show you the salary or wage amount that would pay for a similar lifestyle in any new location you enter. 

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Career One Stop Compare Cost of Living Tool
Cost of Living scores and indexes are a way to compare the overall price of goods and services between different areas of the United States. The national average is 100, so when you look at a place’s COL Index you can instantly see how much more or less you’ll have to pay to live there.

 

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