Houston, TX → Nashville, TN
Moving to Nashville costs you $491 a month
−$5,892 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 405 households moved Houston → Nashville (avg AGI $117,625). 327 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Houston | Nashville | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,958 | $7,568 | −$390 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,661 | $1,545 | −$116 |
| Take-home pay | $6,298 | $6,023 | −$274 |
| Rent | $1,199 | $1,399 | +$200 |
| Getting around | $572 | $559 | −$13 |
| Groceries | $380 | $388 | +$8 |
| Healthcare | $428 | $437 | +$9 |
| Utilities | $238 | $243 | +$5 |
| Everything else | $333 | $340 | +$7 |
| Left over | $3,149 | $2,658 | −$491 |
To break even in Nashville, you'd need to earn
$99,000
Household gross, versus $95,500 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as Houston does now.
The tax difference alone
$0
A year, in state and local income tax. Tennessee has no wage income tax.
More about Nashville
Houston, TX in full
The cheapest housing of any top-10 metro, paid for in property tax and humidity.
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 → Houston →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.