If you refer to the numbers visible on the result list, this is not your income after taxes, but the _difference_ between your (income - cost) bottom line in Chicago vs Denver. Which means it will be pretty much flat - between those it makes sense to pick your favourite by non-monetary criteria.

http://teleport.org/2015/07/make-y… — there are a few things you can do to make your city look better on Teleport. And to get it on there in the first place is to vote for it on the mobile app (coming to web version soon)

Not at all. We actually built a custom index of 60 most “startup-friendly cities” (open economies, availability of talent and capital, etc) around the world, and then augmented it to get decent coverage of smaller capitals in European Union, and some key hubs in Asia. In US for example this got us to Boulder, CO and…

... and when you need to solve such formula, a life hack is to leave it to the machines to solve: http://teleport.org