on $100k a year, leaving Mobile
changea dispatch from
salt lake city
UT
40.76°N
111.89°W
Salt Lake City sits in a bowl of mountains so close you can be at a ski lift in 30 minutes. The grid is laid out from Temple Square in clean numbered streets that make navigation almost too easy. The Great Salt Lake glints west, the Wasatch towers east, and the city itself has loosened up into a real food and bar scene in the last decade. The powder really is that light.
in our guides
the verdict
more each month than Mobile ran you
Salt Lake City costs meaningfully more. Whether it earns that back in the day-to-day is the actual question.
a quick ledger.
$1,608/mo
24% more expensive than Mobile(vs $1,302/mo)
4.65%
$29/mo less in state tax than Mobile
vs 5% in Mobile
$6,338/mo
$277 less than Mobile
gross of federal tax. a comparison, not a paycheck.
$584k
201% more expensive than Mobile
vs $194k in Mobile
1.3M
vs 412k in Mobile
field notes, weather & such.
168
pleasant days a year, in salt lake city.
Mobile has the edge here, logging 225 pleasant days a year. Winter shows up, though: 33 days below 20° vs Mobile's 0.
158% more happening than in Mobile.
78/100
32% higher than Mobile
vs 59/100 in Mobile
Closest outdoor draw: Antelope Island State Park, 22 mi.
80/100
16% higher than Mobile
vs 69/100 in Mobile
90
1700% more than Mobile
vs 5 nonstops in Mobile
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