Nashville, TN → Memphis, TN
You'd keep $109 more a month in Memphis
+$1,308 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 688 households moved Nashville → Memphis (avg AGI $53,637). 1,171 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Nashville | Memphis | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $7,114 | −$469 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,550 | $1,411 | −$139 |
| Take-home pay | $6,034 | $5,704 | −$330 |
| Rent | $1,399 | $1,058 | −$341 |
| Getting around | $559 | $548 | −$11 |
| Groceries | $388 | $364 | −$24 |
| Healthcare | $437 | $410 | −$27 |
| Utilities | $243 | $228 | −$15 |
| Everything else | $340 | $319 | −$21 |
| Left over | $2,669 | $2,778 | +$109 |
To break even in Memphis, you'd need to earn
$83,500
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 Memphis
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
Memphis, TN in full
No income tax and a logistics economy; wages trail the national median.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Memphis on Memphis wages.
Memphis → 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.