Metro Nashville / Hea Wic Grant / Nutritionist 1
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
23 employees hold this title in Hea Wic Grant. Median total compensation for the role is $32,890, below the department median of $50,866.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 23 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 Dietitians and Nutritionists — about 440 people — is $74,110. Hea Wic Grant pays a median base salary of $47,309 for this role, 36% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Dietitians and Nutritionists 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 Hea Wic Grant’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Dietitians and Nutritionists — about 77,570 people — is $76,400. Hea Wic Grant’s median base salary is 38% below that national figure, below the 10th 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 24 of 37 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 Hea Wic Grant is $37,607, 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
Nutritionist 1 is held in 2 Metro Nashville departments. In Hea Wic Grant, the median of $32,890 ranks #2 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Nutritionist 1 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 9 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $43,658 ranks #7 of 9. See Nutritionist across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Nutritionistroles 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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Nutritionist 1/Hea Wic Grant
Source-specific fields
Leslie Ryan works as a Nutritionist 1 for Hea Wic Grant. Leslie earned $62,320 in 2025.