Metro Nashville / Pdf General Sessions Team / Assistant Public Defender 1
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
71 employees hold this title in Pdf General Sessions Team. Median total compensation for the role is $48,351, below the department median of $49,665.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 71 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 General Sessions Team pays a median base salary of $61,245 for this role, 57% 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 General Sessions 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 General Sessions Team’s median base salary is 62% 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 62 of 88 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 General Sessions Team is $51,006, 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 1 is held in 4 Metro Nashville departments. In Pdf General Sessions Team, the median of $48,351 ranks #3 of 4.
Median total compensation for the Assistant Public Defender 1 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 1/Pdf General Sessions Team
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Mary Blank holds the role of Assistant Public Defender 1 at Pdf General Sessions Team. In 2025, their total compensation was $64,648.
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At Pdf General Sessions Team, Mariah Ellis serves as a Assistant Public Defender 1. Their 2025 pay totaled $64,648.
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Emma Harrison is a Assistant Public Defender 1 at Pdf General Sessions Team. 2025 total compensation came to $64,648.
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Raegan Jackson works as a Assistant Public Defender 1 for Pdf General Sessions Team. Raegan earned $64,648 in 2025.
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Hannah Lefton is a Assistant Public Defender 1 at Pdf General Sessions Team. 2025 total compensation came to $64,648.
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Bianca Mcneary is a Assistant Public Defender 1 at Pdf General Sessions Team. 2025 total compensation came to $64,648.
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Adonica Sumlin holds the role of Assistant Public Defender 1 at Pdf General Sessions Team. In 2025, their total compensation was $64,648.
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Sarrhay Louis works as a Assistant Public Defender 1 for Pdf General Sessions Team. Sarrhay earned $64,648 in 2025.
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Anne Berry is a Assistant Public Defender 1 at Pdf General Sessions Team. 2017 total compensation came to $64,399.
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At Pdf General Sessions Team, Megan Waggoner serves as a Assistant Public Defender 1. Their 2017 pay totaled $63,063.
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Ember Eyster is a Assistant Public Defender 1 at Pdf General Sessions Team. 2017 total compensation came to $61,714.