Side by side

Atlanta vs Nashville

Atlanta pays more: a median of $81,500 against $75,000. There is 3.1× more demand for Nashville. Listings for Nashville move faster — median age 43 days against 64.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureAtlantaNashvilleGap
Open postings22,15769,652-47,495
Posted this week8362,652
Median salary$81,500$75,000+$6.5k
25th percentile$64.5k$59.5k
75th percentile$101k$93k
Salary disclosed8.5%7.3%
Remote share3.2%6.5%-3.3pp
Median age of posting64d43d
Open over 60 days44.1%43.0%
Visa sponsorship19.2%23.2%
Pay

Pay distribution

Atlanta

$37k$141k

Nashville

$34k$130k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Atlanta

just posted64d median90d+

Nashville

just posted43d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Atlanta — technologies

Spark
72.0%
dbt
65.8%
Airflow
59.6%
HubSpot
53.4%
Go
47.2%
TypeScript
41.0%
Kubernetes
34.8%

Nashville — technologies

Salesforce
72.0%
Node.js
65.8%
TypeScript
59.6%
Tableau
53.4%
SQL
47.2%
Azure
41.0%
Snowflake
34.8%

Atlanta — employers

Fairmount Legal
9.4%
Quarry Analytics
8.7%
Northwind Systems
8.0%
Halcyon Energy
7.2%
Umbra Security
6.5%
Ironbark Manufacturing
5.8%
Meridian Software
5.1%

Nashville — employers

Ironbark Manufacturing
9.4%
Meridian Software
8.7%
Fairmount Legal
8.0%
Aperture Labs
7.2%
Tidewater Insurance
6.5%
Brightline Retail
5.8%
Northwind Systems
5.1%

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Both sides are counted the same way on the same day, so the gap is comparable even where the absolute numbers move. Salary figures use only postings that publish a range — the disclosure rate is in the table because a median over 20% of a cohort is a weaker number than one over 70%.