Metro Nashville / MNPS Cole Elementary / Teacher - Ex Education
Job-title file
Plan and deliver instruction, assess student progress, and develop curriculum.
9 employees hold this title in MNPS Cole Elementary. Median total compensation for the role is $40,170, below the department median of $52,608.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 9 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 Special Education Teachers, All Other — about 130 people — is $63,300. MNPS Cole Elementary pays a median base salary of $45,974 for this role, 27% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Special Education Teachers, All Other 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 MNPS Cole Elementary’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Special Education Teachers, All Other — about 33,930 people — is $76,580. MNPS Cole Elementary’s median base salary is 40% 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 11 of 18 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 MNPS Cole Elementary is $36,196, 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
Teacher - Ex Education is held in 136 Metro Nashville departments. In MNPS Cole Elementary, the median of $40,170 ranks #120 of 136.
Median total compensation for the Teacher - Ex Education role in other Metro Nashvilledepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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Teacher - Ex Education/MNPS Cole Elementary
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Jane Walling is a Teacher - Ex Education at MNPS Cole Elementary. 2020 total compensation came to $82,094.
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Victoria Jones is a Teacher - Ex Education at MNPS Cole Elementary. 2023 total compensation came to $79,465.
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Natalie Vadas holds the role of Teacher - Ex Education at MNPS Cole Elementary. In 2020, their total compensation was $48,604.
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Savannah Morse holds the role of Teacher - Ex Education at MNPS Cole Elementary. In 2020, their total compensation was $44,286.
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Lynn Guthrie works as a Teacher - Ex Education for MNPS Cole Elementary. Lynn earned $40,170 in 2018.
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Denise Alatorre holds the role of Teacher - Ex Education at MNPS Cole Elementary. In 2017, their total compensation was $32,511.
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Courtney Wangner holds the role of Teacher - Ex Education at MNPS Cole Elementary. In 2018, their total compensation was $11,264.
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At MNPS Cole Elementary, Jusland Patterson serves as a Teacher - Ex Education. Their 2019 pay totaled $3,483.
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Beverly Thompson works as a Teacher - Ex Education for MNPS Cole Elementary. Beverly earned $2,941 in 2023.