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New York

United States · USD · share price index, latest 2026-09

The city is a label: every national figure here is United States's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.

Living wage

The pay one worker needs to cover a modest budget with no help from benefits.

$5,153.67a month · 2026

€4,561at the ECB's 2025 average

Before tax $6,622.42 (€5,860.64)

Excluding housing $2,193.25 (€1,940.96)

Monthly living wage after tax, one adult, no children, New York County (Manhattan).

  • Housing: private rent: Market rent in New York County
  • MIT, 2026

What the figure is made of

Housing · $2,960.42 · 57.4%All 7 parts
  • Housing$2,960.42 57.4%

    $35,525 a year ÷ 12

  • Food$593 11.5%

    $7,116 a year ÷ 12

  • Transportation$392.50 7.6%

    $4,710 a year ÷ 12

  • Other$392.92 7.6%

    $4,715 a year ÷ 12

  • Medical$391.25 7.6%

    $4,695 a year ÷ 12

  • Civic$288 5.6%

    $3,456 a year ÷ 12

  • Internet and mobile$135.58 2.6%

    $1,627 a year ÷ 12

No earlier edition of this living wage is on file on the same method, so there is no change since an earlier year to show.

The whole record

Stock market

At 226 in September 2026, more than double its 2015 level, in US dollars and before inflation. The chart below shows what the US dollar was worth in euros.

USD per euro

1.12 US dollars to the euro in October 2026, still under the July 2008 record of 1.58. A rising line is a weaker US dollar.

House prices, after inflation

56% above 2010, and close to the 2024 peak.

The economy

Inflation, one year
2.9%
2024
Average spending per person
€4,505 a month
2024
Income per person, adjusted for local prices
$89,490
2025
Unemployment
4.2%
2025
Life expectancy
78.9 years
2024

What the economy is made of

What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.

  • Services 76.3%
  • Industry 17.6% (manufacturing 10.5%)
  • Agriculture 0.9%
  • Taxes less subsidies 5.2%
How this is calculated
Living wage
Living Wage Calculator is United States's own method: The income one full-time worker needs to cover a basic budget without public assistance; a market-cost budget, more generous than a poverty line. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
Prices
No carry-forward. The survey (2026) is not older than United States's latest CPI year (2024), so nothing is carried: a year of inflation not yet published is not guessed. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
In euros
At 1.129983 USD per euro, the ECB's 2025 average, the survey's figure is €4,560.84. ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates.
Stock market
OECD via FRED SPASTT01USM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in USD and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
USD per euro
ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates, monthly average from 1999, on a logarithmic scale. A rising line is a weaker USD. Latest 2026-10.
House prices, after inflation
BIS via FRED QUSR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to United States's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.
Sources

MIT Living Wage Calculator, New York County · data updated 15 February 2026 · retrieved 14 Oct 2026

World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.