Transparent planning tool
Berlin rent budget calculator
Estimate a monthly housing-cost range from net household income using a ratio you control.
Planning ceiling
—Enter your figures to calculate.
Formula
(net income × selected share) − other fixed commitments
The often-mentioned 30–40% range is a budgeting convention, not a Berlin eligibility rule. For context, Destatis defines housing-cost overburden as spending more than 40% of disposable income on housing.
Federal Statistical Office: housing-cost burden ↗