Metro Nashville / Police Specialized Investigations / Police Lieutenant
Job-title file
Enforce laws and maintain public safety — patrol, respond to incidents, investigate crimes, and make arrests.
17 employees hold this title in Police Specialized Investigations. Median total compensation for the role is $92,957, below the department median of $103,218.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 17 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 Specialized Investigations pays a median base salary of $81,298 for this role, 14% below that figure — about the 37th 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 Specialized Investigations’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 Specialized Investigations’s median base salary is 23% below that national figure, about the 25th 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 16 of 17 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 Specialized Investigations is $92,957, 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 Lieutenant is held in 52 Metro Nashville departments. In Police Specialized Investigations, the median of $92,957 ranks #26 of 52.
Median total compensation for the Police Lieutenant 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 22 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $78,338 ranks #20 of 22. See Police Lieutenant across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Police Lieutenantroles 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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Donald Scott holds the role of Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. In 2025, their total compensation was $233,366.
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Danny Haley is a Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. 2025 total compensation came to $192,428.
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Will Amundson works as a Police Lieutenant for Police Specialized Investigations. Will earned $167,869 in 2025.
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Matthew Boguskie holds the role of Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. In 2025, their total compensation was $154,365.
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Christopher Dickerson holds the role of Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. In 2025, their total compensation was $136,306.
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Daniel Brown is a Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. 2025 total compensation came to $109,718.
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Stephen Duncan works as a Police Lieutenant for Police Specialized Investigations. Stephen earned $107,892 in 2022.
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At Police Specialized Investigations, Mitchell Fuhrer serves as a Police Lieutenant. Their 2016 pay totaled $97,020.
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At Police Specialized Investigations, Carlos Lara Jr serves as a Police Lieutenant. Their 2018 pay totaled $92,957.
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Joseph Winter works as a Police Lieutenant for Police Specialized Investigations. Joseph earned $81,850 in 2023.
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Michael Buchanan holds the role of Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. In 2022, their total compensation was $63,106.
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Doug Bell works as a Police Lieutenant for Police Specialized Investigations. Doug earned $62,307 in 2022.
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Anthony Mcclain holds the role of Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. In 2021, their total compensation was $54,433.
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Warren Mcconkey works as a Police Lieutenant for Police Specialized Investigations. Warren earned $47,613 in 2025.
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Michael Vaughn holds the role of Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. In 2022, their total compensation was $41,490.
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John Wheeler is a Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. 2021 total compensation came to $35,672.
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Jason Sharpe holds the role of Police Lieutenant at Police Specialized Investigations. In 2023, their total compensation was $16,639.