Metro Nashville / Police Patrol Central Sector Key / Police Sergeant
Job-title file
Enforce laws and maintain public safety — patrol, respond to incidents, investigate crimes, and make arrests.
89 employees hold this title in Police Patrol Central Sector Key. Median total compensation for the role is $62,321, below the department median of $64,911.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 89 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 First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives — about 1,050 people — is $94,420. Police Patrol Central Sector Key pays a median base salary of $61,729 for this role, 35% below that figure — about the 16th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 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 Police Patrol Central Sector Key’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives — about 154,610 people — is $106,040. Police Patrol Central Sector Key’s median base salary is 42% 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 73 of 89 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 Police Patrol Central Sector Key is $62,321, 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
Police Sergeant is held in 55 Metro Nashville departments. In Police Patrol Central Sector Key, the median of $62,321 ranks #37 of 55.
Median total compensation for the Police Sergeant 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 21 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $71,811 ranks #18 of 21. See Police Sergeant across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Police Sergeantroles 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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Michael Willis holds the role of Police Sergeant at Police Patrol Central Sector Key. In 2022, their total compensation was $23,169.
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Michael Spencer is a Police Sergeant at Police Patrol Central Sector Key. 2022 total compensation came to $21,816.
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Larry Cahill works as a Police Sergeant for Police Patrol Central Sector Key. Larry earned $20,944 in 2021.
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At Police Patrol Central Sector Key, Mark Woodfin serves as a Police Sergeant. Their 2021 pay totaled $20,285.
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Brian Brown holds the role of Police Sergeant at Police Patrol Central Sector Key. In 2023, their total compensation was $17,197.
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Matthew Boguskie holds the role of Police Sergeant at Police Patrol Central Sector Key. In 2023, their total compensation was $16,838.
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Brett Kenney works as a Police Sergeant for Police Patrol Central Sector Key. Brett earned $5,293 in 2023.
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Harrison Dooley holds the role of Police Sergeant at Police Patrol Central Sector Key. In 2021, their total compensation was $4,407.
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Brian Williams holds the role of Police Sergeant at Police Patrol Central Sector Key. In 2021, their total compensation was $3,432.