Cost of Living in Google Sheets & Excel

What this pulls

Compare US regions from a cell. Returns cost indices and salary equivalents down a column — Sheets or Excel.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

costliving.xlsxsample data

B2fx=VERVE("costliving", A2, "field", "from.searchedLocation")

Location

From › Searched Location

From › Region

From › Region Name

From › Cost Index

California

California

west-large

West Large Metros (LA, SF, Seattle, Phoeni…

118

click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell

Ways to use it

Live financial model

Drop =VERVE("costliving", "California", "field", "from.searchedLocation") into a cell and your model reads the latest number every refresh — no more pasting figures from a browser tab into a stale sheet.

Track a whole watchlist

Fill a column beside your list of tickers or currencies and every row updates together, so a hundred-row watchlist stays current on its own.

Dashboards that don't rot

Point a chart at the cell =VERVE("costliving", "California", "field", "from.searchedLocation") feeds and the chart re-draws as the data moves — a finance dashboard that's live instead of a Monday-morning snapshot.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("costliving", "California", "field", "from.searchedLocation")

Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("costliving", "California", "field", "from.searchedLocation")

Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

From
=VERVE("costliving", "California", "field", "from")
To
=VERVE("costliving", "California", "field", "to")
Comparison
=VERVE("costliving", "California", "field", "comparison")

Cost of Living, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Cost of Living into Google Sheets?

Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("costliving", "California", "field", "from") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.

What data can I pull from Cost of Living?

Cost of Living returns from, to and comparison — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.

Can I fill a whole column of Cost of Living at once?

Yes. Put your location values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.

How many credits does each Cost of Living cell cost?

Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.

Does Cost of Living work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?

Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.

How current is Cost of Living?

It draws on 4 regions, served live from APIVerve's production data engine, and cells recalculate on the cadence you choose — every open, hourly, or every 30 minutes.

Cost of Living

Live financial model

Track a whole watchlist

Dashboards that don't rot

Cost of Living, answered

Put Cost of Living in your next spreadsheet. Add the extension, paste the formula, and the cell keeps itself current.

Scaling up?