Nashville, TN → Houston, TX
You'd keep $491 more a month in Houston
+$5,892 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 327 households moved Nashville → Houston (avg AGI $72,835). 405 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Nashville | Houston | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $7,974 | +$391 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,550 | $1,666 | +$116 |
| Take-home pay | $6,034 | $6,309 | +$275 |
| Rent | $1,399 | $1,199 | −$200 |
| Getting around | $559 | $572 | +$13 |
| Groceries | $388 | $380 | −$8 |
| Healthcare | $437 | $428 | −$9 |
| Utilities | $243 | $238 | −$5 |
| Everything else | $340 | $333 | −$7 |
| Left over | $2,669 | $3,160 | +$491 |
To break even in Houston, you'd need to earn
$87,500
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. Texas has no wage income tax.
More about Houston
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
Houston, TX in full
The cheapest housing of any top-10 metro, paid for in property tax and humidity.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Houston on Houston wages.
Houston → 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.