What does it really take to cover the basics where you live?
A free calculator that estimates the monthly income a household needs for basic needs in any U.S. county or city, compares it with what you take home now, and shows the gap.
- Rent, food, health care, childcare and transportation, priced for your county
- Your take-home after taxes, next to what the basics cost
- The monthly gap, and ways to close it: family help or side work
Helping family?
See how much support it would take to keep a son, daughter or parent on solid ground.
Coming up short?
See your own gap in plain numbers, and what it would take to close it.