Metro Nashville / Library Bw Circulation / Circulation Assistant
Job-title file
Circulation Assistant
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
11 employees hold this title in Library Bw Circulation. Median total compensation for the role is $41,835, below the department median of $45,315.
- Employees
- 11
- Total payroll
- $415.4K
- Role median
- $41,835
- Agency median
- $45,315
- Comparison
- Below
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 11 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
Circulation Assistant pay vs. the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area
Across all employers in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, the median wage for Library Assistants, Clerical — about 530 people — is $41,210. Library Bw Circulation pays a median base salary of $42,463 for this role, 3% above that figure — about the 55th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Library Bw Circulation sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Library Assistants, Clerical 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 Library Bw Circulation’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Library Assistants, Clerical — about 85,520 people — is $36,910. Library Bw Circulation’s median base salary is 15% above that national figure, about the 66th 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 9 of 11 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 Library Bw Circulation is $41,835, 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
This role across Metro Nashville
Circulation Assistant is held in 23 Metro Nashville departments. In Library Bw Circulation, the median of $41,835 ranks #6 of 23.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Circulation Assistant role in other Metro Nashvilledepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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