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2026 CITY × PROFESSION SALARY GUIDE

Data Scientist Salary in Nashville, TN

Reviewed by Kevin Marshall, CPA

This page starts with the national median salary for data scientist workers, then runs it through ExactTakeHome's 2026 paycheck engine using Nashville's state tax context. That makes the page materially different from the statewide profession guide: the profession stays fixed, while the tax context changes with the city.

Modeled salary benchmark for data scientists in Nashville

ExactTakeHome uses the existing national median salary benchmark of $108,020 for data scientists and analytics specialists, then applies Tennessee withholding rules to show what that pay level looks like in Nashville.

Nashville does not carry a separate modeled local wage tax in this repo, so the city-specific differentiation comes from the city's navigation context and adjacent salary pages while the withholding math stays at the Tennessee state level.

The goal is not to claim every data scientist in Nashville earns the same amount. The goal is to give job seekers and movers a stable benchmark they can compare across cities before opening the full calculator with their own filing status, pay frequency, and deduction inputs.

Modeled gross salary$108,020
Federal income tax$14,934
State income tax$0
FICA$8,264
Estimated take-home pay$84,822

What changes in Nashville

On the repo's default assumptions of single filing status, biweekly pay, standard withholding, and no pre-tax deductions, this salary benchmarks at about $84,822 per year, or $3,262 per biweekly paycheck in Nashville.

Nashville does not add a separate modeled city wage tax here, so the estimate reflects federal withholding, FICA, and Tennessee state income tax only.

If you are comparing job offers, this page is most useful alongside the matching Tennessee profession page and the Nashville city-salary hub. Those adjacent routes hold the same wage benchmark inside different navigation contexts, which is what makes this family useful for city-first and profession-first search intent.

Use this page with the rest of the salary graph

Nearby city pages for Data Scientist

This family caps same-profession sibling links at 12 per page so the route stays connected without turning every leaf into a full-site directory. The links are chosen from a symmetric ring ordered by state and city name, which keeps the cap stable while ensuring every leaf both sends and receives family inlinks.