Nashville, TN → Chattanooga, TN
Moving to Chattanooga costs you $113 a month
−$1,356 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 692 households moved Nashville → Chattanooga (avg AGI $65,010). 606 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Nashville | Chattanooga | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $6,958 | −$625 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,550 | $1,364 | −$185 |
| Take-home pay | $6,034 | $5,594 | −$440 |
| Rent | $1,399 | $1,150 | −$249 |
| Getting around | $559 | $554 | −$5 |
| Groceries | $388 | $368 | −$20 |
| Healthcare | $437 | $414 | −$23 |
| Utilities | $243 | $230 | −$13 |
| Everything else | $340 | $322 | −$18 |
| Left over | $2,669 | $2,556 | −$113 |
To break even in Chattanooga, you'd need to earn
$85,500
Household gross, versus $91,000 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as Nashville does now.
The tax difference alone
$0
A year, in state and local income tax. Tennessee has no wage income tax.
More about Chattanooga
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
Chattanooga, TN in full
World-class climbing and paddling, no income tax, municipal fiber.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Chattanooga on Chattanooga wages.
Chattanooga → Nashville →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.