Metro Nashville / Hea Oral Health Services
Agency file
The Hea Oral Health Services oversees public health and medical services — disease prevention, clinics and hospitals, and health licensing and regulation.
In 2025, this agency had 8 employees with median total compensation of $64,641; the highest distinct record was $185,007.
What the records show
These summaries compare pay within the agency before listing individual records.
How 2025 total compensation is spread across the 8 employees. Each bar is a pay range; taller bars mean more people earn in that range. The amber line marks the median ($64,641) — half earn less, half more. The far-right bar collects the highest earners.
What an average paycheck here is made of — base salary versus overtime, other pay (bonuses, allowances), and benefits. A large overtime or other-pay share means take-home often exceeds base salary.
The pay ladder for this department. Someone at the 90th percentile earns $110,820 — more than 90% of the department; the 10th percentile earns $43,266. The shaded band is the middle half of employees (25th–75th percentile).
The most common job titles in this department by headcount, with the median total compensation for each. Click a title to see everyone who holds it.
Trend
How this department's total payroll, headcount, and median pay changed across the 11 published years.
| Year | Total payroll | Employees | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $253.6K — | 4 — | $39,495 — |
| 2016 | $305.8K ▲ 20.6% | 6 ▲ 50.0% | $39,552 ▲ 0.1% |
| 2017 | $419.9K ▲ 37.3% | 7 ▲ 16.7% | $43,480 ▲ 9.9% |
| 2018 | $487.6K ▲ 16.1% | 8 ▲ 14.3% | $44,830 ▲ 3.1% |
| 2019 | $453.3K ▼ 7.0% | 8 ±0% | $46,188 ▲ 3.0% |
| 2020 | $475.8K ▲ 5.0% | 12 ▲ 50.0% | $30,326 ▼ 34.3% |
| 2021 | $523.7K ▲ 10.1% | 8 ▼ 33.3% | $53,961 ▲ 77.9% |
| 2022 | $492K ▼ 6.1% | 8 ±0% | $50,201 ▼ 7.0% |
| 2023 | $384.3K ▼ 21.9% | 7 ▼ 12.5% | $54,846 ▲ 9.3% |
| 2024 | $154.8K ▼ 59.7% | 1 ▼ 85.7% | $154,808 ▲ 182.3% |
| 2025 | $627.5K ▲ 305.4% | 8 ▲ 700.0% | $64,641 ▼ 58.2% |
Record list
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Dental Assistant 1/Hea Oral Health Services
Source-specific fields
At Hea Oral Health Services, Brenda Allen serves as a Dental Assistant 1. Their 2020 pay totaled $31,568.