It&#x27;s hard for me to compare the cost of living in Singapore vs (insert American city) because I&#x27;ve never lived there. I can only compare to Australia because I lived there for 5 years after leaving New Zealand.<p>There&#x27;s a lot of things that are far cheaper in America, for example I can buy an SSD cheaper on Amazon shipped to Singapore, than buying it in Singapore. But then (having visited only a couple of times) I&#x27;m unaware of anywhere to get lunch for $4(sgd) in America.<p>Singapore can definitely be an expensive place to live. If you choose that sort of life-style. However your federal tax alone is more than my whole income tax. And if Sanders gets his way, that will go up even more. Coupled with State tax, I can only guess my disposable income is more in Singapore than it would be in America.<p>For example, lets say that USD&#x2F;SGD was 1:1, with a yearly salary of $75,000. In America the federal tax alone is 17,666. (not including state tax)<p>In Singapore the income tax on that would be $2000, however every couple of years Singapore does 50% tax rebate up to the first $1000. So the effective tax for last year would have been $1000. Meaning your net income was $74,000 vs $57,334.<p>This doesn&#x27;t include singapore&#x27;s common &quot;13th month&quot; salary which is often an extra month of salary as bonus, usually to cover the cost of taxes as tax is not withheld here like it is in Australia &#x2F; NZ.<p>That means you would get an extra $6200 (approx) on top of the 75k, making your net income more around $80,000<p>If you paid $500&#x2F;m rent in the US that&#x27;s $6k&#x2F;yr, in singapore you pay say $1,300 or $13,000&#x2F;yr<p>So that leaves you with:<p>US: $51,334
SG: $67,000<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smartasset.com&#x2F;taxes&#x2F;income-taxes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;smartasset.com&#x2F;taxes&#x2F;income-taxes</a><p>I don&#x27;t fully understand how you do taxes in America, but based on my limited research from when I wanted to live in America, and just now, this is what I worked out. This isn&#x27;t meant to be factual and proof of the cost of living between the two countries.<p>Edit: Also not a good idea if you&#x27;re American to move to Singapore to work, since you get double taxed. Even all forms here in Singapore ask if you&#x27;re American Tax Citizen.