Probation Officer 1

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 Parent/Child Support Key pays a median base salary of $40,426 for this role, 30% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 4 of 6 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 Parent/Child Support Key is $35,560, 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.

Probation Officer 1 is held in 16 Metro Nashville departments. In Juvenile Parent/Child Support Key, the median of $21,714 ranks #12 of 16.

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 →