Side by side

Nashville vs Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C. pays more: a median of $104,000 against $75,000. There is 1.8× more demand for Nashville. Listings for Nashville move faster — median age 43 days against 84.

Comparison

Side by side

MeasureNashvilleWashington, D.C.Gap
Open postings69,65238,550+31,102
Posted this week2,6521,027
Median salary$75,000$104,000$-29k
25th percentile$59.5k$82k
75th percentile$93k$129k
Salary disclosed7.3%3.9%
Remote share6.5%6.8%-0.3pp
Median age of posting43d84d
Open over 60 days43.0%32.7%
Visa sponsorship23.2%13.7%
Pay

Pay distribution

Nashville

$34k$130k

Washington, D.C.

$47k$180k
Freshness

How old the listings are

Nashville

just posted43d median90d+

Washington, D.C.

just posted84d 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%

Washington, D.C. — technologies

Python
72.0%
Azure
65.8%
Spark
59.6%
Airflow
53.4%
Kotlin
47.2%
dbt
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%

Washington, D.C. — employers

Ironbark Manufacturing
9.4%
Brightline Retail
8.7%
Solstice Biotech
8.0%
Fairmount Legal
7.2%
Vantage Logistics
6.5%
Tidewater Insurance
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%.