Cost of Living in Bangalore

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Except the net monthly salary, the numbers are pretty much accurate. As others pointed out, average net monthly salary can be around 30k. Bangalore is unnecessarily expensive and has poor to average quality of life. Since many dwellers are not from the state, cost of basic necessities are blown out of proportion considering many of them are employed with IT industry. Poor infrastructure, highest level of corruption in every department and snail pace of development whatsoever, further degrades the living.

I spend 20k on rent, cook by myself half of the time, eat out 10 to 20 times a month, food costs are about 10k and utilities about 5k. If you go to malls and movies, you will spend another 10k. Commute and miscellaneous expenses come to 5k. One can live a semi luxurious life in 50k. I get to save about 100k a month

The details on average monthly net salary after tax at Bengaluru is ridiculous. It is showing more than 77,000 in this page. As Krupesh rightly said, the average salary is around half of these numbers shown. In fact, the taxpayers pay huge amounts from their salary to the highly useless Government of India, and the citizens get no benefits in return. In most companies in Bengaluru, the average monthly basic pay in software companies is around 20 to 30k. Also all the companies here have variable pay and an average salary after tax, that too more than 77k is a big joke indeed.
These details are not just for software companies, but for each and every person employed at Bengaluru. So requesting people to never trust the salary details shown in this page.

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Data is not correct, so as per Numbeo you can take 60% of display cost which will be actuals.

In Bangalore, unless you book your local travel via an online app, the auto drivers will never go by the meter. They will charge nearly 5 to 6 times the original price/fare. Transport can be very expensive here.

@Rahul Singh, atleast here the members of the IT cell troll Bhakt army such as you, can't mass downvote or report honest comments. The world knows the 'real truth' about Bangalore and entire India over here. Why don't you go back to your IT cell troll playgrounds such as Quora, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Times of India?
I am delighted that honest comments exist in this site. Let honesty prevail over here.

Yesterday I was sexually harassed and beaten by my Telugu speaking landlord in Bengaluru for not paying 10 months advance rent. I want to go back to my village in Andhra Pradesh to work from home. But my landlord has molested me. I am staying near BTM layout.

Cost of living in Bangalore is little more then other metro cities like Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Chennai and other. In last 2 decades graph of inflation gone very rapidly. Small - small daily needs things also consume more. Like daily needs grocery, daily travel for working people etc. We have launch one D2C work model for online grocery shopping in Bangalore, anyone can checkout here: https://groceryfactory.in/

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A few suggestions for this calculation:

1. As a major city in a developing country, Bangalore exhibits extreme inequality. Things like rent are very difficult to use as a comparative measure; for example residences with bare minimum for human sustenance exist in the city centre, to provide the low cost labour that enables the productivity of affluent classes. So, low rentals can pull down the city average even for prestigious locations.

2. Base commodities which are close to identical across markets might provide a better method of assessment (on the line of the Big Mac index). Collecting more commodity data on prices of foodstuffs, alcohol, transport, fuel, water and electricity, and then weighting these preferentially in your index, might lead to a more accurate result.

3. An even better approach might be to practice some level of anonymous segmentation of your respondents, for which their monthly rent/property value might be a good indication. This should roughly correspond to the different price exposure for quality conditional goods and services (which include education, healthcare, alcohol) compared to commodities. The relative gap can also provide revealing data for measuring Purchasing Power and it's differentials across various strata.

4. The same can be invaluable for the purpose of comparing across different standards (eg. a European city has a higher cost of living but higher quality of public services and so on) which is the real gold in such an analysis: although nominally something may cost much less, adjusting for quality, a high quality service may cost much more in a developing country, making peer-to-peer adjustments more difficult.

5. Apart from spending, it would be interesting to see some non-budgetary data on quality of life added to this calculation. For instance, some rough metrics on the per capita cost of pollution in terms of implicit healthcare costs/lost working hours, also in terms of public services available in terms of time-money trade offs for eg. the ease of obtaining housing, hours needed for gas, electricity, phone connections etc.

Have been following numbeo for years, and the data collection is always useful, inaccuracies and all. Hope you keep up the good work!