Metro Nashville / Pdf Criminal Court Team / Paralegal
Job-title file
Provide legal advice, draft and review documents, and represent the agency in legal matters.
9 employees hold this title in Pdf Criminal Court Team. Median total compensation for the role is $61,740, below 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 Paralegals and Legal Assistants — about 2,660 people — is $60,800. Pdf Criminal Court Team pays a median base salary of $61,740 for this role, 2% above that figure — about the 52nd percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Paralegals and Legal Assistants 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 Paralegals and Legal Assistants — about 392,880 people — is $62,890. Pdf Criminal Court Team’s median base salary is 2% below that national figure, about the 48th 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 7 of 9 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 $61,740, 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
Paralegal is held in 9 Metro Nashville departments. In Pdf Criminal Court Team, the median of $61,740 ranks #2 of 9.
Median total compensation for the Paralegal 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 25 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $57,490 ranks #12 of 25. See Paralegal across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Paralegalroles 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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Paralegal/Pdf Criminal Court Team
Source-specific fields
Mary Halstead is a Paralegal at Pdf Criminal Court Team. 2025 total compensation came to $70,039.