If you could live and work in any location around the world, which factors would you consider when making your choice?  How would you balance a location’s financial opportunities against its quality of life?

AIRINC’s Global 150 Cities Index has been updated for 2023 to highlight the cities that have the ideal combination of high salaries, low taxes, low costs, and good quality of life. Browse the map and lists to see how the locations in your region fall in the global rankings!

Methodology

AIRINC’s Global 150 Cities Index is a ranking of 150 of the top global locations according to the financial and lifestyle benefits they offer. It combines local salary levels, tax rates, living costs, and living conditions to assess how appealing each location is to live in. The data is collected by AIRINC’s own in-house survey team, who continuously research the costs and living conditions of many cities around the world to evaluate international mobility.

The Ranking

The Financial components are aggregated to calculate the net purchasing power of a typical salary in each city, and then converted to a common currency to allow comparison between locations. The Lifestyle metrics are weighted and grouped by category to result in a score out of 100 that allows objective assessment of the living conditions between cities. Both metrics are combined to reflect the importance of each, resulting in an overall score that allows easy city-to-city comparisons and rankings.

Webinar: A deep dive into the APAC rankings

Thursday Sept 28 - 10:00 AM Hong Kong

Join us for a deep dive into Asia-Pacific’s leading locations as ranked in AIRINC’s Global 150, updated for 2023.  In this session, we’ll explore the overall Global 150 rankings with a special spotlight on selected cities in APAC. We’ll also discuss AIRINC’s methodology and tools for determining the Global 150.

This session is being recorded. If time zones prevent you from attending the session live, please register in order to receive a link to the recording.