Side by side

Austin vs Nashville

Austin pays more: a median of $89,500 against $75,000. There is 1.4× more demand for Nashville. Listings for Nashville move faster — median age 43 days against 71.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureAustinNashvilleGap
Open postings49,65369,652-19,999
Posted this week3,1052,652
Median salary$89,500$75,000+$14.5k
25th percentile$70.5k$59.5k
75th percentile$111k$93k
Salary disclosed8.0%7.3%
Remote share6.0%6.5%-0.5pp
Median age of posting71d43d
Open over 60 days33.2%43.0%
Visa sponsorship16.9%23.2%
Pay

Pay distribution

Austin

$40k$155k

Nashville

$34k$130k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Austin

just posted71d median90d+

Nashville

just posted43d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Austin — technologies

GCP
72.0%
JavaScript
65.8%
Node.js
59.6%
Tableau
53.4%
Airflow
47.2%
Salesforce
41.0%
Figma
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%

Austin — employers

Pinewood Education
9.4%
Tidewater Insurance
8.7%
Ironbark Manufacturing
8.0%
Solstice Biotech
7.2%
Beacon Robotics
6.5%
Fairmount Legal
5.8%
Cobalt Financial
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%.