Fire Captain at Nashville Fire Department, General Services District, Logistics, Metro Nashville

Across all employers in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, the median wage for First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers — about 730 people — is $80,720. Nashville Fire Department, General Services District, Logistics pays a median base salary of $90,795 for this role, 12% above that figure — about the 65th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at Nashville Fire Department, General Services District, Logistics is $105,213, 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.

Fire Captain is held in 14 Metro Nashville departments. In Nashville Fire Department, General Services District, Logistics, the median of $105,213 ranks #2 of 14.

This role is reported in 19 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $100,717 ranks #15 of 19. See Fire Captain across all of Metro Nashville →

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