Which is the best cost of living calculator?
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They all suck, but Salary.com sucks a little bit less than the others.\n\nThe best thing to do would be to do it on your own.\n\nTrack your cash spending for one week.  Divide monthly expenses by 4 (credit cards, utilities, rent, loans).\n\nFor the most expensive city you are looking to move to, check out their rent (www.Craigslist.com), utilities, and gas/public transportation.  Also check local restaurant menus to compare prices.  Check local markets' online ordering for food prices.
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Bankrate.com is the best source:\n\nhttp://www.bankrate.com/brm/compare_rates_home.asp
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try this site......   all sorts of calculators.\n\nhttp://www.choosetosave.org/calculators/
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If you are thinking about majoring in business / commerce the BA-35 is the calculator to go for. The TI 89 is great for all the statistics and higher level math courses including Calculus. However from the business / finance point of view, the BA-35 is a very convenient & necessary tool. It has preprogrammed financial and accounting functions. Interest comversions from annual percentage rate to effective rate. \n\nFor more complex computations in higher level classes and in the professional world you might want to upgrade to a HP 17BII. But definitely get the BA 35 as a start up calculator....
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OOh! I've got a great website for this. Go to www.dinkytown.com and there are calculators for everything! You can use the mortgage calculators to find out payment amounts, how much you can afford, etc. there's hunreds of different ones. While you're there check out the other calculators like the one where you find out how much you need to save to be a millionaire by a certain age! You'll love it!
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Not sure if this will be helpful, but salary.com has a pretty good engine for determining salary in a particular geographical area. Not trying to plug a site, but that's what I use to verify employment when I underwrite loans (I work for a mortgage company). \n\n:o)
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http://www.dinkytown.net/\n\nTry this page : http://www.dinkytown.net/\n\nIt's a bunch of financial calculators so you can figure it out and play around with different variables.
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Not a problem:\nhttp://www.mortgage-calc.com/\n\nQuick, easy calculator
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http://www.calculator.com/
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While many businesses may privately estimate different costs of living from one area of the country vs. another (to adjust salaries from different regios, for example), COLA is officially calculated by the US Social Security Administration. You can visit their site at this link to get more detail:\n\nhttp://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/latestCOLA.html\n\nIt's based on the Consumer Price Index, a ratio calculated periodically by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that tracks the value of a "basket of goods" over time. This is one of the ratios we can use to compare dollars today vs. dollars 10 years ago, etc.
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http://walking.about.com/library/cal/uctemp.htm\n\nThis one is great. The mathematical calculation is easy, but if you don't want to pull out your calculator, this one does it out to two decimal points.
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The cost-of-living tends to increase the closer one gets to the oceans, and in urban areas. Cities bordering the ocean tend to be particularly high. New York or California would likely be at the top of such a list. \n\nYou may want to check out the cost-of-living wizard at salary.com
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go to paycheckcity.com\nyou'll find tax calculators and it will even tell you exactly how much you can expect for each paycheck...\nand it's FREE!!!
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hey, you can try the TI-Series calculators..\n\nThey are simple the #1 calculator on the market, same price for over 6 years now.\n\nI have a TI-89 Series and I can do everythign the mathematica can, except the mathematica programming. TI-89 does assembly and C programming.\n\nand you can send info from comp to the calculator..\n\nhttp://education.ti.com/educationportal/sites/US/productDetail/us_ti89ti.html\n\ntake a look at it
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Cost of living is cost of living, California or Timbuktu.  If you have more expenses then it is proper to carry them over to your clients if you were charging a legitimate and comptetitive rate in the first place.  If you can offer your services more efficently than before you may want to keep them at the same level to remain competative.
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Well the city that pays the most probably has the highest cost of living, so that might not be your best search criteria. For pay rates, check the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Outlook Handbook at:\nhttp://www.bls.gov/oco/
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Are you talking about CDs, Money Market, Savings, Mortgage?\n\nYou can check bankrate.com\nYou can select the link that says "Compare ??? in my area", it will allow you to enter in your state and city. Replace ??? with Savings, mortgage, etc