Tennessee Salary Calculator 2026

Name: Tennessee trade wage benchmarks (BLS OEWS May 2025 release)
Creator: GlobalCybers
License: https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/

Convert hourly ↔ annual salary and benchmark your pay against Tennessee-adjusted BLS medians for 20+ trade roles. Tennessee is pre-selected; includes overtime.

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Hourly ↔ Annual Reference Table

Hourly Rate	Annual (2,080 hrs)	Monthly	Weekly
$15.00/hr	$31,200	$2,600	$600
$20.00/hr	$41,600	$3,467	$800
$25.00/hr	$52,000	$4,333	$1,000
$30.00/hr	$62,400	$5,200	$1,200
$35.00/hr	$72,800	$6,067	$1,400
$40.00/hr	$83,200	$6,933	$1,600
$45.00/hr	$93,600	$7,800	$1,800
$50.00/hr	$104,000	$8,667	$2,000
$60.00/hr	$124,800	$10,400	$2,400
$75.00/hr	$156,000	$13,000	$3,000
$100.00/hr	$208,000	$17,333	$4,000
$125.00/hr	$260,000	$21,667	$5,000

Salary Calculator FAQ

How do you convert hourly rate to annual salary?

Multiply your hourly rate by 2,080 (40 hours × 52 weeks) for a standard full-time annual salary. Example: $30/hr × 2,080 = $62,400/yr. For overtime weeks, use: (40 hrs × rate) + (OT hrs × rate × 1.5) × number of weeks.

How many working hours are in a year?

Standard full-time: 2,080 hours (40 × 52). Minus 10 federal holidays (80 hrs): 2,000 paid hours. Minus 2 weeks vacation (80 hrs): 1,920 hours actually worked. BLS uses 2,080 for hourly-to-annual conversions. Turnaround and shutdown workers can exceed 3,000 hours/yr with heavy overtime.

What is time-and-a-half overtime?

Under the FLSA, non-exempt employees must receive 1.5× their regular rate for all hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek. Example: $30/hr base · regular week = $1,200 (40 hrs) · one 10-hr OT week = $1,200 + ($30 × 1.5 × 10) = $1,200 + $450 = $1,650. Double time (2×) is not federally required but common in petrochemical and union contracts.

Tennessee Salaries

How Tennessee salaries compare to the national market

Tennessee trade wages run about 7% below the national median (BLS OEWS May 2025), and this calculator applies a 0.93 Tennessee wage index to national medians. The full picture is friendlier than the gross number: Tennessee taxes no wage income at all, its cost of living sits below the national average, and Nashville's tower-crane skyline pays about 7% above the state figure. Memphis logistics, Chattanooga's Volkswagen plant and the Ford BlueOval City campus at Stanton keep industrial trade demand strong statewide.

Simplified outline of Tennessee — a stylised shape, not to scale.

0.93× national BLS median

Tennessee wage index

~7% below on paper

Gross vs national

0% on wages (Hall Tax repealed 2021)

State income tax

Tennessee trade salaries at a glance (2026 BLS)

Tennessee-adjusted BLS OEWS medians for common skilled trades (national median localised with the 0.93 Tennessee wage index). Enter your own pay in the calculator above to benchmark against any role.

Trade	Tennessee median / yr	National median	Tennessee / hr
Electrician	$58,770	$63,190	$28.25
Plumber	$59,330	$63,800	$28.52
HVAC Technician	$56,740	$61,010	$27.28
Pipefitter	$59,330	$63,800	$28.52
Ironworker	$58,390	$62,780	$28.07
Carpenter	$56,340	$60,580	$27.09

Trade pay by Tennessee metro

Local BLS medians vs the Tennessee state average.

Metro	Median	vs state
Nashville	$62,880	1.07× state
Memphis	$57,590	0.98× state
Chattanooga	$55,240	0.94× state
Knoxville	$54,660	0.93× state

Is a lower Tennessee salary offset by zero income tax?

Mostly, yes. A Tennessee worker keeps the roughly 3–5% of gross that a Georgia or Kentucky worker sends to the state, which claws back most of the ~7% wage gap, and housing outside Nashville remains cheap by national standards. Compare net offers with the Tennessee paycheck calculator rather than gross figures.

Where is trade demand strongest in Tennessee?

Middle and West Tennessee. Nashville's decade-long construction boom keeps commercial crews busy at the state's best rates, while Ford's BlueOval City EV campus near Memphis is one of the largest industrial builds in U.S. history and recruits electricians, pipefitters and millwrights region-wide. Chattanooga (Volkswagen) and Oak Ridge round out the industrial map.

How accurate is the Tennessee benchmark in this calculator?

The calculator applies a Tennessee wage index (0.93×) to national BLS OEWS medians, a reference estimate, not a quote. Nashville runs well above the state figure while rural and Appalachian-border markets run below it, and Tennessee's largely non-union market widens the employer spread. For exact BLS state and metro medians with percentiles, use the Tennessee salary guide.

What is the median trade salary in Tennessee?

It varies by role: the Tennessee electrician median is about $58,770, plumbers $59,330, HVAC technicians $56,740, and pipefitters $59,330 (BLS OEWS May 2025, Tennessee-adjusted). Enter your own pay in the calculator to see your percentile against any role.

How is the Tennessee wage index applied?

National BLS OEWS medians are multiplied by a 0.93 Tennessee factor to localise them, reflecting that Tennessee gross pay runs about 7% below the national average. Hourly figures assume 2,080 paid hours a year. It is a reference estimate, not an employer offer.

Which Tennessee metros pay trades the most?

Nashville leads on high-rise, healthcare and stadium work at roughly 7% above the state median. Memphis tracks near parity on logistics, port and BlueOval-adjacent work, while Chattanooga and Knoxville run a few points below the state figure, with Oak Ridge federal projects paying above local scale.

Do Tennessee trade wages include overtime?

The benchmark medians are base pay. Tennessee follows the federal FLSA standard of 1.5× after 40 hours a week, and megaproject schedules at BlueOval City and the Nashville towers generate steady overtime. This calculator lets you add overtime hours at 1.5× (or 2×) to model total annual pay.

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Sources & methodology

Salary figures are U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS (May 2025) national medians localised with a 0.93 Tennessee wage index; hourly rates assume 2,080 paid hours a year. Primary sources: BLS OEWS · Tennessee Department of Revenue · Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development. Reviewed 2026-07-21 by the GlobalCybers Data Desk · reference estimates, not an offer of pay. Full methodology →

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