Teacher Ex Education at Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville School of the Arts

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. Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville School of the Arts pays a median base salary of $61,053 for this role, 4% below that figure — about the 25th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 7 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 Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville School of the Arts is $57,357, 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.

Teacher Ex Education is held in 140 Metro Nashville departments. In Metro Nashville Public Schools, Nashville School of the Arts, the median of $60,996 ranks #48 of 140.

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• Education Assistant - Ex Education One to One 5
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• Paraprofessional Pro Ex Education 8
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• Teacher Art 7
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• Teacher Social Studies History 9