Metro Nashville / Juvenile Star Team / Probation Officer 1
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 Star Team. Median total compensation for the role is $20,547, below the department median of $33,755.
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 Star Team pays a median base salary of $46,921 for this role, 19% below that figure — about the 14th 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 Star Team’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 Star Team’s median base salary is 29% below that national figure, about 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 8 of 10 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Star Team is $45,838, 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 1 is held in 16 Metro Nashville departments. In Juvenile Star Team, the median of $20,547 ranks #14 of 16.
Median total compensation for the Probation Officer 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 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 Officer roles 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 1/Juvenile Star Team
Source-specific fields
Heather Oestreich works as a Probation Officer 1 for Juvenile Star Team. Heather earned $20,547 in 2023.