Metro Nashville / Unknown Department / Dental Hygienist 1
Job-title file
Diagnose and treat patients, direct clinical care, and supervise other medical staff.
12 employees hold this title in Unknown Department. Median total compensation for the role is $40,150, above the department median of $39,357.
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 Dental Hygienists — about 1,490 people — is $94,030. Unknown Department pays a median base salary of $50,577 for this role, 46% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Dental Hygienists 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 Unknown Department’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Dental Hygienists — about 222,740 people — is $98,100. Unknown Department’s median base salary is 48% 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 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 Unknown Department is $40,150, 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
Dental Hygienist 1 is held in 3 Metro Nashville departments. In Unknown Department, the median of $40,150 ranks #2 of 3.
Median total compensation for the Dental Hygienist 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 10 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $39,596 ranks #10 of 10. See Dental Hygienist across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Dental Hygienistroles 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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Dental Hygienist 1/Unknown Department
Source-specific fields
Margaret Barber holds the role of Dental Hygienist 1 at Unknown Department. In 2024, their total compensation was $72,774.