City of Memphis / Memphis Parks / Recreation Leader
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
224 employees hold this title in Memphis Parks. Median total compensation for the role is $31,200, above the department median of $31,200.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 224 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Memphis, TN-MS-AR area, the median wage for Recreation Workers — about 970 people — is $32,700. Memphis Parks pays a median base salary of $31,200 for this role, 5% below that figure — about the 42nd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Recreation Workers across every employer in the Memphis, TN-MS-AR area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Memphis Parks’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Recreation Workers — about 331,490 people — is $36,560. Memphis Parks’s median base salary is 15% below that national figure, about the 23rd percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Memphis, TN-MS-AR range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 222 of 224 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Memphis Parks is $31,200, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 10 jurisdictions. In City of Memphis, the median of $31,200 ranks #5 of 10. See Recreation Leader across all of City of Memphis →
Median total compensation for comparable Recreation Leaderroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Recreation Leader/Memphis Parks
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William Hess holds the role of Recreation Leader at Memphis Parks. In 2025, their total compensation was $24,960.