Side by side

Nashville vs San Diego

San Diego pays more: a median of $92,500 against $75,000. There is 1.8× more demand for Nashville. San Diego is the more remote-friendly of the two, by 5.5%. Listings for Nashville move faster — median age 43 days against 63.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureNashvilleSan DiegoGap
Open postings69,65239,556+30,096
Posted this week2,6521,459
Median salary$75,000$92,500$-17.5k
25th percentile$59.5k$73k
75th percentile$93k$115k
Salary disclosed7.3%5.0%
Remote share6.5%12.0%-5.5pp
Median age of posting43d63d
Open over 60 days43.0%45.1%
Visa sponsorship23.2%11.4%
Pay

Pay distribution

Nashville

$34k$130k

San Diego

$42k$160k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Nashville

just posted43d median90d+

San Diego

just posted63d 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%

San Diego — technologies

Tableau
72.0%
Python
65.8%
dbt
59.6%
Swift
53.4%
Spark
47.2%
React
41.0%
Figma
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%

San Diego — employers

Rivergate Media
9.4%
Fairmount Legal
8.7%
Cobalt Financial
8.0%
Ironbark Manufacturing
7.2%
Pinewood Education
6.5%
Umbra Security
5.8%
Lakeshore Hospitality
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%.