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About Miami vs NYC

The short answer

Miami vs NYC is an independent side-by-side comparison of the two cities, built and maintained by Jake Kozloski. Every number links to a public source, says what year it describes and what area it covers, and is re-checked on a schedule. The site isn’t affiliated with either city government.

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Who runs it

Jake Kozloski built the site and is responsible for everything on it. More at jakekozloski.com and @jakozloski on X.

Where the numbers come from

The homepage compares 102 measures across 12 categories, and the guides add their own; together they cite 109 sources, listed at the bottom of this page. They’re public: federal agencies (the Census Bureau, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the FBI, NOAA, the IRS), state and city governments, and a few established data publishers.

  • Every figure names its geography: the city proper, the metro area, the county, or the state. When the honest comparison is between different units, the row says so.
  • Every figure names its year, and the source list below, the guides, and the data download record when each source was last checked.
  • Numbers in sentences come from the data where they can. Many sentences in the guides, salary pages, and calculator build their numbers from the same figures the tables show, and tests check written numbers on those pages and the homepage against the data.

How the numbers are checked

  • Every week, automated checks re-test every source link, flag any source that hasn’t been re-checked in nine months (and fail at twelve), and confirm the live cams are still streaming.
  • Every change to the site runs tests that check copy against the data and the tax math against the official 2026 federal, New York State, and New York City rate schedules, including New York’s recapture worksheets.
  • When a source is updated, the change is logged with its date in “Data updates” at the bottom of every page.

Report an error

If a number looks wrong, out of date, or unfairly compared, say so: message @jakozloski on X with the page and what you found. Confirmed corrections are fixed and noted in “Data updates” with the date.

Using the data

Every homepage measure except C2ER’s paid index is in one CSV (100 rows), each with its source, year, geography, and notes: download the data.

The site’s compilation (its selection and arrangement of the figures, and its notes) is licensed CC BY 4.0: reuse it with credit to “Miami vs NYC (miamivsnyc.com)”. Each underlying figure still belongs to its original source and stays under that source’s terms.

How the site makes money

Some links are affiliate links: the travel partners in the banner at the bottom of the screen (Booking.com, GetYourGuide, Viator) and the partner links at the end of some homepage sections (including Sovrn apartment listings). If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Partners never change a number or a verdict.

The travel banner stays off this page, the tax guide, and the salary pages, where you came for numbers rather than a trip. The site counts page views and clicks on its own links with Vercel Web Analytics.

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