Phoenix, AZ → Nashville, TN
You'd keep $92 more a month in Nashville
+$1,104 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 588 households moved Phoenix → Nashville (avg AGI $100,384). 353 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | Phoenix | Nashville | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $7,583 | $0 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,709 | $1,550 | −$159 |
| Take-home pay | $5,875 | $6,034 | +$159 |
| Rent | $1,276 | $1,399 | +$123 |
| Getting around | $586 | $559 | −$27 |
| Groceries | $396 | $388 | −$8 |
| Healthcare | $446 | $437 | −$9 |
| Utilities | $248 | $243 | −$5 |
| Everything else | $347 | $340 | −$7 |
| Left over | $2,577 | $2,669 | +$92 |
To break even in Nashville, you'd need to earn
$89,500
Household gross, versus $91,000 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as Phoenix does now.
The tax difference alone
+$1,910
A year, in state and local income tax. Tennessee has no wage income tax.
More about Nashville
Phoenix, AZ in full
A 2.5% flat income tax, cheap housing for a big metro, and a genuinely dangerous July.
Nashville, TN in full
No income tax and a real music and healthcare economy; traffic is the tax.
The reverse move
Same two cities, but starting from Nashville on Nashville wages.
Nashville → Phoenix →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.