About MovingCal.

Moving decisions are five questions pretending to be one: what does life cost there, what will my salary actually keep, what does the move itself cost, should I rent or buy when I land, and how does the whole country compare to the alternatives? Most tools answer one question with stale data and leave you to staple the rest together.

MovingCal answers all five from one normalised 2026 dataset – 65+ cities, 25 US states, 35+ countries – with the formulas in the open and every page linking to its neighbours. The cost-of-living index that converts your salary is the same data the rent-vs-buy model prices and the same rents the relocation budget uses for deposits. No accounts, no paywalls.

The numbers are planning estimates, and we document exactly how they're built on the methodology page – including where we'd want you to double-check us before signing anything.

Who runs MovingCal

MovingCal is built and maintained by Anmol Kumar, an independent software developer who got tired of relocation research meaning fifteen tabs of contradictory numbers. He writes the calculation engines, maintains the dataset, and reads every correction that comes in through the contact page. There's no content farm behind the curtain – when a tax bracket changes or a reader catches a stale rent figure, the same person who built the formula fixes it.

Want to flag an error, ask how a number was computed, or talk about the data? Use the contact form – a real person answers.