Chattanooga, TN → Nashville, TN
You'd keep $113 more a month in Nashville
+$1,356 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 606 households moved Chattanooga → Nashville (avg AGI $67,012). 692 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Chattanooga | Nashville | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $6,958 | $7,584 | +$626 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,364 | $1,550 | +$185 |
| Take-home pay | $5,594 | $6,034 | +$440 |
| Rent | $1,150 | $1,399 | +$249 |
| Getting around | $554 | $559 | +$5 |
| Groceries | $368 | $388 | +$20 |
| Healthcare | $414 | $437 | +$23 |
| Utilities | $230 | $243 | +$13 |
| Everything else | $322 | $340 | +$18 |
| Left over | $2,556 | $2,669 | +$113 |
To break even in Nashville, you'd need to earn
$89,000
Household gross, versus $83,500 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as Chattanooga does now.
The tax difference alone
$0
A year, in state and local income tax. Tennessee has no wage income tax.
More about Nashville
Chattanooga, TN in full
World-class climbing and paddling, no income tax, municipal fiber.
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Nashville on Nashville wages.
Nashville → Chattanooga →Rent is Zillow's asking rent for each metro; taxes and living costs are modelled. An estimate, not a quote or tax advice. How this is calculated.