Metro Nashville / Ofm Light Veh/Equip Repairs / Automotive Mechanic
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
30 employees hold this title in Ofm Light Veh/Equip Repairs. Median total compensation for the role is $38,766, below the department median of $40,408.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 30 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 Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics — about 5,150 people — is $58,700. Ofm Light Veh/Equip Repairs pays a median base salary of $52,017 for this role, 11% below that figure — about the 40th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics 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 Ofm Light Veh/Equip Repairs’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics — about 704,640 people — is $50,620. Ofm Light Veh/Equip Repairs’s median base salary is 3% above that national figure, about the 52nd 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 20 of 30 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 Ofm Light Veh/Equip Repairs is $38,766, 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
Automotive Mechanic is held in 4 Metro Nashville departments. In Ofm Light Veh/Equip Repairs, the median of $38,766 ranks #2 of 4.
Median total compensation for the Automotive Mechanic 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 10 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $38,238 ranks #10 of 10. See Automotive Mechanic across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Automotive Mechanicroles 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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Automotive Mechanic/Ofm Light Veh/Equip Repairs
Source-specific fields
Brian Ezell works as a Automotive Mechanic for Ofm Light Veh/Equip Repairs. Brian earned $51,707 in 2025.