Side by side

Denver vs Nashville

Denver pays more: a median of $85,500 against $75,000. There is 3.0× more demand for Nashville. Denver is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 6.1%. Listings for Nashville move faster — median age 43 days against 82.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureDenverNashvilleGap
Open postings22,94269,652-46,710
Posted this week1,1192,652
Median salary$85,500$75,000+$10.5k
25th percentile$67.5k$59.5k
75th percentile$106k$93k
Salary disclosed9.0%7.3%
Remote share12.6%6.5%+6.1pp
Median age of posting82d43d
Open over 60 days48.3%43.0%
Visa sponsorship17.1%23.2%
Pay

Pay distribution

Denver

$38k$148k

Nashville

$34k$130k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Denver

just posted82d median90d+

Nashville

just posted43d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Denver — technologies

Terraform
72.0%
React
65.8%
Tableau
59.6%
dbt
53.4%
Swift
47.2%
TypeScript
41.0%
Airflow
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%

Denver — employers

Northwind Systems
9.4%
Aperture Labs
8.7%
Rivergate Media
8.0%
Lakeshore Hospitality
7.2%
Brightline Retail
6.5%
Cobalt Financial
5.8%
Vantage Logistics
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%.