Metro Nashville / Juvenile Assessment / Probation Officer 3
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
1 employees hold this title in Juvenile Assessment. Median total compensation for the role is $66,014, above the department median of $32,478.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, the median wage for Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists — about 630 people — is $58,010. Juvenile Assessment pays a median base salary of $41,764 for this role, 28% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists 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 Juvenile Assessment’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists — about 89,390 people — is $66,270. Juvenile Assessment’s median base salary is 37% 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 6 of 10 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 Juvenile Assessment is $39,328, 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
Probation Officer 3 is held in 14 Metro Nashville departments. In Juvenile Assessment, the median of $66,014 ranks #8 of 14.
Median total compensation for the Probation Officer 3 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 8 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $40,603 ranks #6 of 8. See Probation Officer across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Probation Officerroles 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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Probation Officer 3/Juvenile Assessment
Source-specific fields
Atica Helms holds the role of Probation Officer 3 at Juvenile Assessment. In 2018, their total compensation was $66,014.