# Rent affordability calculator

> Find a weekly rent ceiling from your take-home pay, essentials and savings. Compare it with 30% of gross pay while keeping room for everyday life and bills.

Canonical HTML: https://getclova.com/tools/rent-affordability-calculator

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Find a weekly rent ceiling from your take-home pay, essentials and savings. Compare it with 30% of gross pay while keeping room for everyday life and bills.

## Method and assumptions

Subtract essentials, savings, spending and breathing room from take-home pay; normalise the remainder to a weekly rent ceiling. Compare separately with 30% of entered gross pay.

Open the [interactive calculator](https://getclova.com/tools/rent-affordability-calculator). JavaScript is required to recalculate.

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