Side by side

Houston vs Nashville

Houston pays more: a median of $83,500 against $75,000. There is 1.5× more demand for Nashville.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureHoustonNashvilleGap
Open postings47,77169,652-21,881
Posted this week1,6962,652
Median salary$83,500$75,000+$8.5k
25th percentile$66k$59.5k
75th percentile$104k$93k
Salary disclosed3.7%7.3%
Remote share4.2%6.5%-2.3pp
Median age of posting45d43d
Open over 60 days34.2%43.0%
Visa sponsorship12.8%23.2%
Pay

Pay distribution

Houston

$38k$144k

Nashville

$34k$130k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Houston

just posted45d median90d+

Nashville

just posted43d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Houston — technologies

Kubernetes
72.0%
TypeScript
65.8%
Spark
59.6%
JavaScript
53.4%
dbt
47.2%
Azure
41.0%
Tableau
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%

Houston — employers

Northwind Systems
9.4%
Ironbark Manufacturing
8.7%
Solstice Biotech
8.0%
Umbra Security
7.2%
Aperture Labs
6.5%
Rivergate Media
5.8%
Kestrel Health
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%.