Nashville, TN → Philadelphia, PA
Moving to Philadelphia costs you $243 a month
−$2,916 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 76 households moved Nashville → Philadelphia (avg AGI $73,461). 196 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Nashville | Philadelphia | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $8,131 | +$547 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,550 | $2,266 | +$717 |
| Take-home pay | $6,034 | $5,864 | −$170 |
| Rent | $1,399 | $1,541 | +$142 |
| Getting around | $559 | $418 | −$141 |
| Groceries | $388 | $408 | +$20 |
| Healthcare | $437 | $459 | +$22 |
| Utilities | $243 | $255 | +$12 |
| Everything else | $340 | $357 | +$17 |
| Left over | $2,669 | $2,426 | −$243 |
To break even in Philadelphia, you'd need to earn
$102,000
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
−$6,654
A year, in state and local income tax. Effective rates: 20.4% in Nashville, 27.9% in Philadelphia.
More about Philadelphia
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
Philadelphia, PA in full
East Coast density at half of Boston's rent, minus a 3.75% city wage tax.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Philadelphia on Philadelphia wages.
Philadelphia → 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.