Life Power by Meridian
What's your cost-of-living level? Beggar to King
Life Power turns your salary and city into a rank — from Beggar to King — based on how far your money actually goes, not what you nominally earn.
The results break your intuition: a $6,000 salary makes you a Beggar in New York, but $10,000 working remote from Mexico City makes you a King. Same career, opposite lives. And $3,000 in Mexico City out-ranks $6,000 in San Francisco.
Under the hood, your level is income divided by a defined monthly basket (1-BR rent, coworking, transit, daily dining) across 200+ cities, on a log curve — backed by live, AI-refreshed cost data rather than crowdsourced surveys that can be years stale. There's also a separate "Realm" grade for the city itself (safety, internet, walkability), kept apart on purpose so a cheap-but-rough place doesn't masquerade as a great one.
Free, no signup, no card. Paste your result link anywhere and it renders as a shareable card.
What's your level?
Features
Type your salary + city, get a level from Beggar to King (1-99)
Live, AI-refreshed cost data for 200+ cities — not stale crowdsourced surveys
Separate "Realm" grade for the city itself: safety, internet, walkability
Shareable card per result — paste the link anywhere and it renders
Compare two cities side by side and see where your salary goes further
Public methodology + full dataset as a free CSV
Free, no signup, no credit card
Use Cases
Remote workers deciding where to relocate — see which city your current salary actually stretches in
Negotiating a relocation package — check whether a "raise" is really a raise after local costs and taxes
Digital nomads picking a next base — compare cost, internet, safety and walkability in one place
Anyone curious how far their money would go somewhere else — in one number, shareable in one link
Comments
Hey Fazier — solo founder here. Life Power started as a question I kept asking as a remote worker: not "how much does this city cost?" but "what would MY salary actually make me there?" Nominal pay tells you almost nothing — what matters is income divided by what your city charges you to exist. The results are what kept me building. A $6,000 salary lands you a Beggar in New York. $10,000 remote from Mexico City makes you a King. And $3,000 in Mexico City out-ranks $6,000 in San Francisco. Same career, completely different lives. I got burned twice relocating on stale crowdsourced data (2022 rent estimates in a 2026 market), so the whole thing is built on live, AI-retrieved and cross-checked prices across 200+ cities, refreshed on a rolling schedule. Methodology is public and the full dataset is a free CSV — I'd rather you poke holes in it than take my word for it. Free, no signup, no card. Genuinely want the brutal version: which city's level looks wrong to you, and by how much?
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Hey Fazier — solo founder here. Life Power started as a question I kept asking as a remote worker: not "how much does this city cost?" but "what would MY salary actually make me there?" Nominal pay tells you almost nothing — what matters is income divided by what your city charges you to exist. The results are what kept me building. A $6,000 salary lands you a Beggar in New York. $10,000 remote from Mexico City makes you a King. And $3,000 in Mexico City out-ranks $6,000 in San Francisco. Same career, completely different lives. I got burned twice relocating on stale crowdsourced data (2022 rent estimates in a 2026 market), so the whole thing is built on live, AI-retrieved and cross-checked prices across 200+ cities, refreshed on a rolling schedule. Methodology is public and the full dataset is a free CSV — I'd rather you poke holes in it than take my word for it. Free, no signup, no card. Genuinely want the brutal version: which city's level looks wrong to you, and by how much?
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