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title: "Average Salary in Nashville, TN"
description: "Mean $66,390, median $50,390 in the Nashville metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Nashville, TN

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $66,390, median $50,390 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 1,099,300 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $52,310.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $30,060 |
| 25th | $37,630 |
| 50th | $50,390 |
| 75th | $77,810 |
| 90th | $113,970 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 96.3 |
| Housing (rents) | 104.6 |
| Goods | 96.2 |
| Utilities | 72.0 |
| Other services | 95.1 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $228,090
- [Nurse Anesthetist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nurse-anesthetist): $213,970
- [Physicist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physicist): $208,710
- [General Internal Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-internal-medicine-physician): $207,420
- [Family Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/family-medicine-physician): $201,510
- [Judge](https://nuecareer.com/careers/judge): $196,660
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general): $181,360
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $178,240
- [Psychiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychiatrist): $174,970
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $174,280

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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