Nashville, TN → St. Louis, MO
Moving to St. Louis costs you $13 a month
−$156 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 126 households moved Nashville → St. Louis (avg AGI $109,310). 163 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Nashville | St. Louis | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $7,583 | $0 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,550 | $1,905 | +$355 |
| Take-home pay | $6,034 | $5,679 | −$355 |
| Rent | $1,399 | $1,144 | −$255 |
| Getting around | $559 | $545 | −$14 |
| Groceries | $388 | $368 | −$20 |
| Healthcare | $437 | $414 | −$23 |
| Utilities | $243 | $230 | −$13 |
| Everything else | $340 | $322 | −$18 |
| Left over | $2,669 | $2,656 | −$13 |
To break even in St. Louis, you'd need to earn
$91,000
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
−$4,260
A year, in state and local income tax. Effective rates: 20.4% in Nashville, 25.1% in St. Louis.
More about St. Louis
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
St. Louis, MO in full
The lowest home prices of any metro over 2 million people.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from St. Louis on St. Louis wages.
St. Louis → 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.