Side by side

Nashville vs Portland

Portland pays more: a median of $88,000 against $75,000. There is 2.3× more demand for Nashville. Listings for Portland move faster — median age 33 days against 43.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureNashvillePortlandGap
Open postings69,65230,575+39,077
Posted this week2,6521,662
Median salary$75,000$88,000$-13k
25th percentile$59.5k$69.5k
75th percentile$93k$109k
Salary disclosed7.3%9.0%
Remote share6.5%9.4%-2.9pp
Median age of posting43d33d
Open over 60 days43.0%46.7%
Visa sponsorship23.2%11.8%
Pay

Pay distribution

Nashville

$34k$130k

Portland

$40k$152k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Nashville

just posted43d median90d+

Portland

just posted33d median90d+
Demand

What each side asks for

Nashville — technologies

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

Portland — technologies

Kubernetes
72.0%
React
65.8%
Snowflake
59.6%
Java
53.4%
dbt
47.2%
Swift
41.0%
JavaScript
34.8%

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%

Portland — employers

Fairmount Legal
9.4%
Quarry Analytics
8.7%
Lakeshore Hospitality
8.0%
Umbra Security
7.2%
Kestrel Health
6.5%
Rivergate Media
5.8%
Tidewater Insurance
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%.