The world's richest cities by personal net earnings in 2008 (UBS Servey) Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Cities Zurich Dublin Oslo Geneva Luxembourg Copenhagen London Helsinki Frankfurt Munich New York Berlin Vienna Los Angeles Sydney Chicago Brussels Stockholm Toronto Tokyo Montreal Auckland Amsterdam Lyon Nicosia Paris Barcelona Madrid Miami Milan Dubai Athens Rome Seoul Lisbon Singapore Taipei Manama Ljubljana Index New York =100 140.3 132.3 131.7 130.4 120.0 114.1 110.0 108.7 102.4 101.4 100.0 98.3 97.9 96.7 95.8 94.1 93.3 92.2 91.6 89.3 87.7 87.5 87.3 83.3 83.3 81.4 81.4 78.6 74.4 71.0 64.2 59.3 59.0 50.6 46.1 45.0 43.4 38.1 36.4
40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70
Sao Paulo Johannesburg Hong Kong Prague Moscow Istanbul Tallinn Bratislava Santiago de Chile Rio de Janeiro Budapest Warsaw Caracas Vilnius Riga Buenos Aires Lima Kuala Lumpur Bucharest Bogota Shanghai Mexico City Sofia Kiev Nairobi Beijing Bangkok Mumbai Manila Delhi Jakarta
35.9 35.4 35.4 34.7 31.6 31.3 29.3 26.6 26.4 26.1 25.6 24.8 22.6 21.0 21.0 19.6 18.2 17.8 15.9 15.7 15.5 14.0 13.4 13.1 13.0 12.9 12.8 10.8 9.8 9.7 8.3
Methodology These calculations are based on wage figures, social security contributions and working hours in 2006 for fourteen widespread professions. Uniform criteria were used with regard to work experience, age, marital status etc. The wage index was weighted by the share of each occupation in overall employment and overall income and also by gender. The figures relate to pay net of taxes and social security contributions. In calculating the 2008 update of the wage index, USB not only took account of exchange rates and inflation, but also factored in that part of the economic growth was due to productivity improvements and was therefore passed on to employees in the form of higher pay.