Side by side

Nashville vs Raleigh

Raleigh pays more: a median of $83,000 against $75,000. Demand is comparable on both sides. Raleigh is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 6.8%. Listings for Nashville move faster — median age 43 days against 53.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureNashvilleRaleighGap
Open postings69,65269,130+522
Posted this week2,6523,235
Median salary$75,000$83,000$-8k
25th percentile$59.5k$65.5k
75th percentile$93k$103k
Salary disclosed7.3%6.2%
Remote share6.5%13.3%-6.8pp
Median age of posting43d53d
Open over 60 days43.0%49.1%
Visa sponsorship23.2%18.2%
Pay

Pay distribution

Nashville

$34k$130k

Raleigh

$37k$144k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Nashville

just posted43d median90d+

Raleigh

just posted53d 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%

Raleigh — technologies

Python
72.0%
Go
65.8%
Snowflake
59.6%
Terraform
53.4%
Tableau
47.2%
Azure
41.0%
PostgreSQL
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%

Raleigh — employers

Vantage Logistics
9.4%
Fairmount Legal
8.7%
Brightline Retail
8.0%
Solstice Biotech
7.2%
Rivergate Media
6.5%
Halcyon Energy
5.8%
Kestrel Health
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%.