Metro Nashville / Pdf Criminal Court Team / Assistant Public Defender 4
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
9 employees hold this title in Pdf Criminal Court Team. Median total compensation for the role is $101,679, above the department median of $64,524.
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 Lawyers — about 3,990 people — is $142,540. Pdf Criminal Court Team pays a median base salary of $64,675 for this role, 55% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Lawyers 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 Pdf Criminal Court Team’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Lawyers — about 754,500 people — is $159,670. Pdf Criminal Court Team’s median base salary is 59% 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 68 of 92 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 Pdf Criminal Court Team is $54,050, 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
Assistant Public Defender 4 is held in 6 Metro Nashville departments. In Pdf Criminal Court Team, the median of $101,679 ranks #5 of 6.
Median total compensation for the Assistant Public Defender 4 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 6 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $54,640 ranks #4 of 6. See Assistant Public Defender across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Assistant Public Defenderroles 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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Assistant Public Defender 4/Pdf Criminal Court Team
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Jonathan Wing is a Assistant Public Defender 4 at Pdf Criminal Court Team. 2025 total compensation came to $183,074.
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At Pdf Criminal Court Team, Laura Getz serves as a Assistant Public Defender 4. Their 2025 pay totaled $172,215.
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Kevin Griffith works as a Assistant Public Defender 4 for Pdf Criminal Court Team. Kevin earned $131,194 in 2025.
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Crandall Story works as a Assistant Public Defender 4 for Pdf Criminal Court Team. Crandall earned $116,325 in 2025.
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Mary Harcombe is a Assistant Public Defender 4 at Pdf Criminal Court Team. 2019 total compensation came to $101,679.
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Georgia Sims holds the role of Assistant Public Defender 4 at Pdf Criminal Court Team. In 2017, their total compensation was $96,333.
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Martesha Johnson holds the role of Assistant Public Defender 4 at Pdf Criminal Court Team. In 2018, their total compensation was $95,112.
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Kristin Neff is a Assistant Public Defender 4 at Pdf Criminal Court Team. 2021 total compensation came to $83,996.
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Joan Lawson is a Assistant Public Defender 4 at Pdf Criminal Court Team. 2025 total compensation came to $32,320.