Hospitality Jobs in Nashville, TN

The firm local benchmark is still the BLS May 2025 wage data: food preparation and serving jobs averaged $16.55 an hour in Nashville, with a broader occupation-family median of $32,150 a year and a 25th-to-90th percentile range of $27,420 to $48,810. More recent posted pay in the Callings.ai sample centers much higher—about $65k to $80k for salaried roles and about $16 to $19 an hour for hourly roles—so the posting mix appears skewed toward management, chef, and harder-to-fill supervisory jobs rather than the whole category.

Full September 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 194 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $32,370 at the 25th percentile, $37,440 at the median and $41,600 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of November 10, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Favorable market | next 3-6 months

Nashville is still a favorable market for hospitality, food service, and travel job seekers if you are open to on-site work and flexible about employer type. Metro leisure and hospitality employment reached 145.8 thousand in August 2026, up 4.8921% year over year, while metro unemployment stayed low at 3.1%. The catch is that broader occupation-specific signals are cooler: Revelio Public Labor Statistics shows Tennessee hospitality, food service & travel postings down 19.1% year over year and employment down 0.8% year over year in September 2026. That usually means real openings still exist, but employers can be pickier than the local growth headline suggests.

Best positioned: Candidates with open availability, solid food safety and customer-service basics, and willingness to work on-site across hotels, restaurants, or contract food service have the best odds right now.

Main caution: Do not assume the posted salaried band centered on about $65k to $80k is typical for the whole field; local government wage benchmarks for the broader occupation family are much lower, and title mix matters a lot.

From the September 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 341 openings in this market. 10 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Marriott International, Inc.: 17 open roles
2. Chartwell Hospitality, LLC: 15 open roles
3. Compass Group: 9 open roles
4. Entegra: 7 open roles
5. Four Seasons group: 7 open roles
6. Gaylord Hotels: 7 open roles
7. Landry's, Inc.: 7 open roles
8. Skyport Hospitality First Meridian Services: 7 open roles
9. Brinker: 6 open roles
10. Brookdale Senior Living: 6 open roles

Where the openings are

• Nashville: 237
• Franklin: 31
• Brentwood: 17
• Smyrna: 16
• Gallatin: 10
• Hermitage: 6
• Mount Juliet: 5
• Hendersonville: 4

Work arrangement

on-site 330 (100%), remote 1 (0%)

Where the demand is

Real opportunity is concentrated first in hotels and broader hospitality operators, which account for about 50% of sampled postings, followed by restaurants at about 20% and food and beverage at about 10%. That lines up with the broader metro backdrop: leisure and hospitality employment rose to 145.8 thousand in August 2026 after 4.8921% year-over-year growth. If you are only applying to one sub-niche—fine dining, boutique hotels, or travel-planning work—you are narrowing your odds more than the headline category size suggests. A second pocket sits in institutional and mixed operators. Compass Group is one of the most active named employers in the sample, and about 5% of postings sit in hospitals and health care. These roles often reward reliability, sanitation, volume execution, and schedule consistency more than celebrity-brand prestige. The weakest pocket is remote-first work. About 95% or more of sampled roles are on-site, with less than 5% hybrid and less than 5% remote. If you want off-site travel coordination or desk-based hospitality support, expect a much smaller lane than the overall market headline implies.

• Hotels and branded hospitality (high): This is the largest local opportunity pool, with hospitality operators representing about 50% of sampled postings.
• Restaurants, bars, cafés, and new concepts (moderate): Restaurants account for about 20% of sampled postings, with additional demand coming from food and beverage operators at about 10%.
• Institutional food service and healthcare-adjacent operations (moderate): A smaller but steadier segment shows up through operators like Compass Group and through hospitals and health care at about 5% of sampled postings.
• Remote travel and desk-based coordination work (limited): This is the narrowest lane locally because about 95% or more of sampled roles are on-site and less than 5% are remote.

Where to focus: Prioritize year-round operators first—hotel groups, contract food-service employers, and higher-volume chains—then layer in independent concepts once you have interviews moving.

Roles worth searching next

• Retail shift lead or store supervisor: The overlap is strongest on cash handling, inventory management, customer service, and day-to-day team coordination.
• Customer support or reservations representative: Guest service, communication, and problem-solving transfer well from hotel front desk, restaurant service, and travel-facing hospitality work.
• Sales coordinator for hotels, venues, or travel brands: Hospitality workers already understand guest expectations, bookings, service recovery, and operational handoff, which are useful in entry sales-support roles.
• Administrative coordinator or office operations assistant: Front-desk, concierge, and restaurant-management experience often translates into scheduling, vendor coordination, customer communication, and detail management.

What postings ask for

• Food safety and sanitation (table_stakes | immediate): Food safety shows up in about 15% of local postings and sanitation in about 10%, and broader 2026 hospitality guidance also flags food safety as a core skill. Who: Everyone, especially entry-level cooks, servers, baristas, housekeepers, and shift leads.
• Inventory management (differentiator | immediate): Inventory management appears in about 20% of local postings, which makes it a strong signal for candidates moving toward lead or supervisor work. Who: Mid-career candidates, shift leads, catering staff, and career switchers from retail.
• Cash handling and POS fluency (table_stakes | immediate): Cash handling shows up in about 20% of local postings, and 2026 hospitality guidance emphasizes technology literacy that includes POS and digital guest systems. Who: Front desk, barista, server, bartender, and quick-service applicants.
• Food handler's certificate (differentiator | immediate): It is the most commonly named credential in the local sample, even though it appears in only about 5% of postings, which makes it a low-cost way to remove friction in screening. Who: Entry-level food-service candidates and career switchers without recent hospitality experience.
• Customer service and adaptive communication (table_stakes | immediate): Customer service appears in about 10% of local postings, and broader 2026 guidance highlights communication, emotional intelligence, and cultural competency as core hospitality differentiators. Who: All candidate types, especially front-of-house and hotel guest-service applicants.
• Property, guest, and digital service system literacy (differentiator | near-term): Hospitality guidance in 2026 points to digital guest experience tools, contactless workflows, and AI-powered workforce platforms as rising expectations, especially in hotels and branded operations. Who: Hotel candidates, front-desk workers, supervisors, and career switchers coming from office or retail systems.

Questions about this market

What do Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles pay in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

The firm local benchmark is still the BLS May 2025 wage data: food preparation and serving jobs averaged $16.55 an hour in Nashville, with a broader occupation-family median of $32,150 a year and a 25th-to-90th percentile range of $27,420 to $48,810. More recent posted pay in the Callings.ai sample centers much higher—about $65k to $80k for salaried roles and about $16 to $19 an hour for hourly roles—so the posting mix appears skewed toward management, chef, and harder-to-fill supervisory jobs rather than the whole category. For most frontline candidates, this is still a moderate-pay market. Nashville's local food-service mean trails the nationwide mean of $17.86 an hour for the same broad occupation group.

Where is demand for Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN concentrated?

Real opportunity is concentrated first in hotels and broader hospitality operators, which account for about 50% of sampled postings, followed by restaurants at about 20% and food and beverage at about 10%. That lines up with the broader metro backdrop: leisure and hospitality employment rose to 145.8 thousand in August 2026 after 4.8921% year-over-year growth. If you are only applying to one sub-niche—fine dining, boutique hotels, or travel-planning work—you are narrowing your odds more than the headline category size suggests. A second pocket sits in institutional and mixed operators. Compass Group is one of the most active named employers in the sample, and about 5% of postings sit in hospitals and health care. These roles often reward reliability, sanitation, volume execution, and schedule consistency more than celebrity-brand prestige. The weakest pocket is remote-first work. About 95% or more of sampled roles are on-site, with less than 5% hybrid and less than 5% remote. If you want off-site travel coordination or desk-based hospitality support, expect a much smaller lane than the overall market headline implies.

Which employers are hiring the most Hospitality, Food Service & Travel talent in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

Recent postings show the most activity from Starbucks Corp. (20 postings), Marriott International (20 postings), Compass Group (20 postings), Southall (15 postings), Brinker (10 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Hospitality, Food Service & Travel roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 5% hybrid, with 95% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

How current are these listings?

Openings come from the Callings.ai live index of over 13 million jobs, refreshed hourly. This page searches postings from the last 30 days; run the search yourself to filter by anything else in plain language.

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