St. Louis, MO → Nashville, TN
You'd keep $13 more a month in Nashville
+$156 a year for the same registered nurse, the same household size, and the same number of bedrooms.
In 2022-2023, 163 households moved St. Louis → Nashville (avg AGI $75,810). 126 went the other way. The whole move →
| Per month | St. Louis | Nashville | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross pay | $7,583 | $7,583 | $0 |
| Income and payroll tax | $1,905 | $1,550 | −$355 |
| Take-home pay | $5,679 | $6,034 | +$355 |
| Rent | $1,144 | $1,399 | +$255 |
| Getting around | $545 | $559 | +$14 |
| Groceries | $368 | $388 | +$20 |
| Healthcare | $414 | $437 | +$23 |
| Utilities | $230 | $243 | +$13 |
| Everything else | $322 | $340 | +$18 |
| Left over | $2,656 | $2,669 | +$13 |
To break even in Nashville, 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 St. Louis does now.
The tax difference alone
+$4,260
A year, in state and local income tax. Tennessee has no wage income tax.
More about Nashville
St. Louis, MO in full
The lowest home prices of any metro over 2 million people.
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 → St. Louis →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.