Nashville, TN → San Antonio, TX
You'd keep $164 more a month in San Antonio
+$1,968 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 59 households moved Nashville → San Antonio (avg AGI $73,780). 166 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Nashville | San Antonio | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $7,271 | −$313 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,550 | $1,457 | −$93 |
| Take-home pay | $6,034 | $5,814 | −$220 |
| Rent | $1,399 | $1,052 | −$347 |
| Getting around | $559 | $566 | +$7 |
| Groceries | $388 | $376 | −$12 |
| Healthcare | $437 | $423 | −$14 |
| Utilities | $243 | $235 | −$8 |
| Everything else | $340 | $329 | −$11 |
| Left over | $2,669 | $2,833 | +$164 |
To break even in San Antonio, you'd need to earn
$84,500
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 San Antonio
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
San Antonio, TX in full
Among the cheapest big-city rents in the country, with the highest property tax rate here.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from San Antonio on San Antonio wages.
San Antonio → 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.