San Antonio, TX → Nashville, TN
Moving to Nashville costs you $164 a month
−$1,968 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 166 households moved San Antonio → Nashville (avg AGI $92,355). 59 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | San Antonio | Nashville | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,250 | $7,562 | +$312 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,451 | $1,543 | +$92 |
| Take-home pay | $5,799 | $6,019 | +$219 |
| Rent | $1,052 | $1,399 | +$347 |
| Getting around | $566 | $559 | −$7 |
| Groceries | $376 | $388 | +$12 |
| Healthcare | $423 | $437 | +$14 |
| Utilities | $235 | $243 | +$8 |
| Everything else | $329 | $340 | +$11 |
| Left over | $2,818 | $2,654 | −$164 |
To break even in Nashville, you'd need to earn
$93,500
Household gross, versus $87,000 today. That's the salary that leaves you exactly as much at the end of the month as San Antonio does now.
The tax difference alone
$0
A year, in state and local income tax. Tennessee has no wage income tax.
More about Nashville
San Antonio, TX in full
Among the cheapest big-city rents in the country, with the highest property tax rate here.
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 → San Antonio →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.