Metro Nashville / Police Property & Evidence Key / Police Officer 2
Job-title file
Enforce laws and maintain public safety — patrol, respond to incidents, investigate crimes, and make arrests.
12 employees hold this title in Police Property & Evidence Key. Median total compensation for the role is $60,356, below the department median of $63,848.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 12 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 Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — about 4,730 people — is $68,780. Police Property & Evidence Key pays a median base salary of $80,824 for this role, 18% above that figure — about the 79th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers 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 Property & Evidence Key’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers — about 670,520 people — is $76,210. Police Property & Evidence Key’s median base salary is 6% above that national figure, about the 55th 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 8 of 12 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 Property & Evidence Key is $60,356, 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 Officer 2 is held in 56 Metro Nashville departments. In Police Property & Evidence Key, the median of $60,356 ranks #33 of 56.
Median total compensation for the Police Officer 2 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 31 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $44,945 ranks #30 of 31. See Police Officer across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Police Officerroles 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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Police Officer 2/Police Property & Evidence Key
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Brandon Evans holds the role of Police Officer 2 at Police Property & Evidence Key. In 2025, their total compensation was $133,291.
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Allen Bates is a Police Officer 2 at Police Property & Evidence Key. 2025 total compensation came to $123,056.
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Darrell Osment works as a Police Officer 2 for Police Property & Evidence Key. Darrell earned $113,823 in 2025.
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Sean Williams holds the role of Police Officer 2 at Police Property & Evidence Key. In 2025, their total compensation was $103,776.
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Peter Lynch Jr is a Police Officer 2 at Police Property & Evidence Key. 2019 total compensation came to $77,102.
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Randal Owsley works as a Police Officer 2 for Police Property & Evidence Key. Randal earned $69,923 in 2025.
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At Police Property & Evidence Key, Shelia Nidiffer serves as a Police Officer 2. Their 2019 pay totaled $50,789.
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Peter Lynch works as a Police Officer 2 for Police Property & Evidence Key. Peter earned $47,373 in 2022.
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Michael Nieves holds the role of Police Officer 2 at Police Property & Evidence Key. In 2018, their total compensation was $28,981.
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At Police Property & Evidence Key, Geoffrey Thiede serves as a Police Officer 2. Their 2018 pay totaled $28,888.
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At Police Property & Evidence Key, Thomas Bowden serves as a Police Officer 2. Their 2017 pay totaled $21,282.
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Gary Bridgeman is a Police Officer 2 at Police Property & Evidence Key. 2022 total compensation came to $20,316.