Nashville, TN → Orlando, FL
Moving to Orlando costs you $489 a month
−$5,868 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 213 households moved Nashville → Orlando (avg AGI $70,080). 279 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Nashville | Orlando | 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 | $1,502 | +$103 |
| Getting around | $559 | $586 | +$27 |
| Groceries | $388 | $396 | +$8 |
| Healthcare | $437 | $446 | +$9 |
| Utilities | $243 | $248 | +$5 |
| Everything else | $340 | $347 | +$7 |
| Left over | $2,669 | $2,180 | −$489 |
To break even in Orlando, you'd need to earn
$93,500
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. Florida has no wage income tax.
More about Orlando
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
Orlando, FL in full
No income tax, but a service economy holds wages below the national median.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Orlando on Orlando wages.
Orlando → 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.