Metro Nashville / Fir Usd Fire Operations / Fire Engineer
Job-title file
Design, analyze, and oversee technical systems or infrastructure, ensuring they meet specifications and codes.
365 employees hold this title in Fir Usd Fire Operations. Median total compensation for the role is $79,813, above the department median of $79,281.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 365 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, the median wage for Firefighters — about 2,170 people — is $49,300. Fir Usd Fire Operations pays a median base salary of $77,977 for this role, 58% above that figure — above the 90th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Firefighters across every employer in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Fir Usd Fire Operations’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Firefighters — about 345,990 people — is $59,280. Fir Usd Fire Operations’s median base salary is 32% above that national figure, about the 75th 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 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 312 of 365 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 Fir Usd Fire Operations is $79,813, 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 departments
Fire Engineer is held in 9 Metro Nashville departments. In Fir Usd Fire Operations, the median of $79,813 ranks #2 of 9.
Median total compensation for the Fire Engineer role in other Metro Nashvilledepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 5 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $83,677 ranks #4 of 5. See Fire Engineer across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Fire Engineerroles 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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Fire Engineer/Fir Usd Fire Operations
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Buford Duke is a Fire Engineer at Fir Usd Fire Operations. 2025 total compensation came to $23,403.
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Lonnie Phillips holds the role of Fire Engineer at Fir Usd Fire Operations. In 2025, their total compensation was $22,173.
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Zachary Hilliard is a Fire Engineer at Fir Usd Fire Operations. 2025 total compensation came to $22,109.
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Patrick Nolan works as a Fire Engineer for Fir Usd Fire Operations. Patrick earned $21,833 in 2025.
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Lewis Balch works as a Fire Engineer for Fir Usd Fire Operations. Lewis earned $21,442 in 2018.
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Jeffrey Mires works as a Fire Engineer for Fir Usd Fire Operations. Jeffrey earned $20,680 in 2025.
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John Wilson works as a Fire Engineer for Fir Usd Fire Operations. John earned $20,655 in 2022.
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At Fir Usd Fire Operations, Matthew Burge serves as a Fire Engineer. Their 2025 pay totaled $20,300.
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Michael Ryman is a Fire Engineer at Fir Usd Fire Operations. 2025 total compensation came to $19,712.
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Timothy Riley works as a Fire Engineer for Fir Usd Fire Operations. Timothy earned $19,357 in 2025.
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Michael Shepherd is a Fire Engineer at Fir Usd Fire Operations. 2025 total compensation came to $18,352.
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Joshua Tant is a Fire Engineer at Fir Usd Fire Operations. 2020 total compensation came to $18,289.