50+ Personal Care & Fitness Jobs in Nashville, TN

The cleanest local benchmark is BLS data for fitness trainers and instructors: median pay was $45,240 in May 2025, with the 25th percentile at $29,350 and the 75th percentile at $64,090. Broader local posting data suggests hourly-paid roles center on about $23 to $30 per hour, with a wider about $16 to $38 per hour band, and a recent Fairview trainer posting showed $19.00 to $22.00 per hour. Proxy salary sites place Nashville personal trainers around $53,952 to about $60,057 annually, but those are estimates rather than official local wage statistics.

Full July 2026 market report

Advertised pay

Across the 39 openings that disclose pay, the advertised range midpoint runs $52,000 at the 25th percentile, $53,040 at the median and $72,800 at the 75th. These are advertised ranges, not earned pay.

Active openings as of September 7, 2026

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What our analysts see this month

Balanced market | next 3-6 months

Nashville is a workable but selective market for Personal Care & Fitness right now. The metro unemployment rate was 3.2% in June 2026, total metro nonfarm employment was up 1.5646% year over year, and Other Services employment was up 0.9653% year over year, which supports ongoing consumer-facing demand. But Tennessee-wide personal care & fitness employment was essentially flat year over year in July 2026 and active postings were down 7.6%, so the category is not in broad expansion mode. Local hiring also looks fragmented rather than deep, with more than 30 postings across more than 20 companies over the last 90 days.

Best positioned: Candidates who already hold a cosmetology license or a recognized trainer certification plus CPR/AED, and who are comfortable in on-site, client-facing work, have the best odds because about 95% of local roles are on-site and the sample skews about 80% entry level.

Main caution: Do not treat this as one uniform market: the best official local benchmark available here is fitness trainers and instructors, while actual postings are spread across salons, recreation, hospitality, healthcare, and retail.

From the July 2026 market report

Who is hiring here

Counted across all 61 openings in this market. 8 of the employers below are hiring for more than one role right now.

1. Great Clips, Inc.: 22 open roles
2. Svetness: 11 open roles
3. Crunch Fitness, Primetime Fitness LLC: 3 open roles
4. Drybar: 3 open roles
5. Four Seasons: 2 open roles
6. Life Time, Inc.: 2 open roles
7. Marriott International, Inc.: 2 open roles
8. Regis Corporation: 2 open roles
9. Anytime Fitness: 1 open role
10. Anytime Fitness Asia: 1 open role

Where the openings are

• Nashville: 22
• Franklin: 8
• Brentwood: 7
• Mount Juliet: 5
• Nolensville: 4
• Gallatin: 2
• Goodlettsville: 2
• Hendersonville: 2

Work arrangement

on-site 58 (100%)

Where the demand is

Opportunities are spread across several employer types rather than concentrated in one deep hiring stream. In the local posting sample, hospitality accounts for about 20% of activity, while sports & recreation, healthcare, retail, and leasing non-residential real estate each sit at about 15%, and more than 30 postings were spread across more than 20 companies over the last 90 days. That means you should think in segments—gyms, salons, kids' activity programs, recreation, and experience-led service work—not as one unified labor market. The named employers reinforce that split. Recent active employers include Salon Renter Inc., The Little Gym, Somersault Operating Inc., US Ghost Adventures, and TruFit Athletic Clubs, each appearing around 5 times in the sample rather than one company dominating. On the fitness side, Equinox is opening its first Tennessee location in the Gulch, TruFit is recruiting for district-level group-fitness coordination, and Anytime Fitness recently advertised a suburban trainer role in Fairview at $19.00 to $22.00 per hour. The more actionable openings appear to cluster around premium clubs, program-led gyms, salon-suite ecosystems, and suburban growth corridors rather than a single downtown hiring wave.

• Club fitness and group training (high): Premium clubs and program-led gyms are the clearest fitness subsegment, supported by Equinox's 2026 Nashville opening, TruFit's coordinator hiring, and a current Anytime Fitness trainer opening in Fairview.
• Beauty, barbering, and salon suites (moderate): Cosmetology licenses show up in about 15% of local postings, and Salon Renter Inc. is one of the most consistently active named employers, pointing to ongoing salon-suite and service-chair demand.
• Youth movement and experience-led recreation (moderate): The Little Gym, Somersault Operating Inc., and US Ghost Adventures all appear among the active employers, and local skill signals emphasize gymnastics and dance, suggesting steady demand for instructors who can lead structured activities and customer-facing experiences.

Where to focus: Focus first on on-site employers that value a required credential and let you show both service delivery and client retention: club fitness, salons, and youth movement programs.

Roles worth searching next

• Corporate wellness coordinator: Trainer skills transfer well into employee wellness, and major employers in gyms, hospitals, and corporate wellness programs almost always want NCCA-aligned credentials.
• Clinical massage therapist: If your massage work is clinical rather than spa-led, it fits the neighboring healthcare-support path better than this category.
• Preschool teacher: If your background is strongest in structured child development rather than general childcare, this moves naturally into the neighboring education path, where developmental tracking and classroom tools are becoming more common.
• Membership sales or client success for gyms and salons: Local skill signals emphasize customer service, selling or influencing others, and service delivery, which transfers well into conversion and retention roles.

What postings ask for

• Cosmetology license (table_stakes | immediate): A cosmetology license is the most frequently cited credential in the local sample at about 15% of postings, and Tennessee's compact status improves long-run mobility for licensed beauty workers. Who: Beauty, barbering, hairstyling, and salon-suite candidates.
• NCCA-accredited personal trainer certification (table_stakes | immediate): NCCA accreditation remains the benchmark in 2026 for trainer credentials, and local postings specifically call out NASM and ACE among the recurring cert signals. Who: Personal trainers, group instructors, and career switchers entering fitness.
• CPR/AED (table_stakes | immediate): CPR/AED appears repeatedly in local certification requirements, making it one of the fastest credibility upgrades for safety-sensitive roles. Who: Anyone targeting training, group fitness, or youth activity roles.
• Group fitness certification and class-format depth (differentiator | near-term): Group fitness certification shows up in local postings, and TruFit's district coordinator role explicitly values certification knowledge such as NASM, AFAA, or ACE. Who: Instructors who want better odds at premium clubs or multi-site roles.
• Customer service and selling (differentiator | immediate): O*NET highlights assisting and caring for others plus selling or influencing others, local postings call out customer service, and BLS emphasizes communication and customer-service skills for trainers. Who: Everyone in this category, especially entry-level applicants.
• Exercise technique, anatomy, and nutrition knowledge (table_stakes | near-term): BLS says trainers need exercise-technique, anatomy, and nutrition knowledge, while O*NET emphasizes movement demonstration as core work. Who: Fitness trainers, group instructors, and switchers coming from non-fitness backgrounds.

Questions about this market

What do Personal Care & Fitness roles pay in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

The cleanest local benchmark is BLS data for fitness trainers and instructors: median pay was $45,240 in May 2025, with the 25th percentile at $29,350 and the 75th percentile at $64,090. Broader local posting data suggests hourly-paid roles center on about $23 to $30 per hour, with a wider about $16 to $38 per hour band, and a recent Fairview trainer posting showed $19.00 to $22.00 per hour. Proxy salary sites place Nashville personal trainers around $53,952 to about $60,057 annually, but those are estimates rather than official local wage statistics. This is usually a moderate-pay market unless you can stack volume, upsells, tips, commission, or a premium setting. The local BLS median for fitness trainers is close to the national BLS median of $46,180, so Nashville is not dramatically overpaying for generalist fitness talent.

Where is demand for Personal Care & Fitness roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN concentrated?

Opportunities are spread across several employer types rather than concentrated in one deep hiring stream. In the local posting sample, hospitality accounts for about 20% of activity, while sports & recreation, healthcare, retail, and leasing non-residential real estate each sit at about 15%, and more than 30 postings were spread across more than 20 companies over the last 90 days. That means you should think in segments—gyms, salons, kids' activity programs, recreation, and experience-led service work—not as one unified labor market. The named employers reinforce that split. Recent active employers include Salon Renter Inc., The Little Gym, Somersault Operating Inc., US Ghost Adventures, and TruFit Athletic Clubs, each appearing around 5 times in the sample rather than one company dominating. On the fitness side, Equinox is opening its first Tennessee location in the Gulch, TruFit is recruiting for district-level group-fitness coordination, and Anytime Fitness recently advertised a suburban trainer role in Fairview at $19.00 to $22.00 per hour. The more actionable openings appear to cluster around premium clubs, program-led gyms, salon-suite ecosystems, and suburban growth corridors rather than a single downtown hiring wave.

Which employers are hiring the most Personal Care & Fitness talent in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

Recent postings show the most activity from Salon Renter Inc. (5 postings), The Little Gym (5 postings), Somersault Operating Inc. (5 postings). See the full market report for the complete employer landscape.

Can Personal Care & Fitness roles in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN be done remotely?

Of recent postings, 5% are remote and 0% hybrid, with 95% on-site. Use the Remote filter above to see only remote openings.

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