Metro Nashville / Pla Planning Policy and Design
Agency file
The Pla Planning Policy and Design supports housing and community development — affordable housing, planning, and neighborhood programs.
In 2025, this agency had 12 employees with median total compensation of $91,603; the highest distinct record was $199,575.
What the records show
These summaries compare pay within the agency before listing individual records.
How 2025 total compensation is spread across the 12 employees. Each bar is a pay range; taller bars mean more people earn in that range. The amber line marks the median ($91,603) — half earn less, half more. The far-right bar collects the highest earners.
What an average paycheck here is made of — base salary versus overtime, other pay (bonuses, allowances), and benefits. A large overtime or other-pay share means take-home often exceeds base salary.
The pay ladder for this department. Someone at the 90th percentile earns $111,169 — more than 90% of the department; the 10th percentile earns $82,466. The shaded band is the middle half of employees (25th–75th percentile).
The most common job titles in this department by headcount, with the median total compensation for each. Click a title to see everyone who holds it.
Trend
How this department's total payroll, headcount, and median pay changed across the 11 published years.
| Year | Total payroll | Employees | Median pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $537.3K — | 10 — | $53,763 — |
| 2016 | $588.1K ▲ 9.5% | 11 ▲ 10.0% | $56,130 ▲ 4.4% |
| 2017 | $564.3K ▼ 4.1% | 11 ±0% | $59,742 ▲ 6.4% |
| 2018 | $612.8K ▲ 8.6% | 11 ±0% | $60,267 ▲ 0.9% |
| 2019 | $737.4K ▲ 20.3% | 12 ▲ 9.1% | $62,400 ▲ 3.5% |
| 2020 | $642.4K ▼ 12.9% | 11 ▼ 8.3% | $68,291 ▲ 9.4% |
| 2021 | $295.4K ▼ 54.0% | 9 ▼ 18.2% | $9,402 ▼ 86.2% |
| 2022 | $375.6K ▲ 27.2% | 9 ±0% | $40,385 ▲ 329.5% |
| 2023 | $498K ▲ 32.6% | 9 ±0% | $70,498 ▲ 74.6% |
| 2024 | $183.6K ▼ 63.1% | 1 ▼ 88.9% | $183,590 ▲ 160.4% |
| 2025 | $1.2M ▲ 562.2% | 12 ▲ 1100.0% | $91,603 ▼ 50.1% |
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Departments elsewhere with the most similar mix of roles — a proxy for the same kind of agency, matched by workforce composition rather than name. Pay is not cost-of-living adjusted.
Record list
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Plan Assistant Executive Dir-Prj Management/Pla Planning Policy and Design
Source-specific fields
At Pla Planning Policy and Design, John Houghton serves as a Plan Assistant Executive Dir-Prj Management. Their 2025 pay totaled $199,575.