Metro Nashville / W&S Building Cleanings / Custodian
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
1 employees hold this title in W&S Building Cleanings. Median total compensation for the role is $28,553, below the department median of $73,919.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, the median wage for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 9,940 people — is $36,130. W&S Building Cleanings pays a median base salary of $27,755 for this role, 23% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 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 W&S Building Cleanings’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 2,209,760 people — is $36,840. W&S Building Cleanings’s median base salary is 25% 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.
Median total compensation for this role at W&S Building Cleanings is $28,553, 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
Custodian is held in 12 Metro Nashville departments. In W&S Building Cleanings, the median of $28,553 ranks #8 of 12.
Median total compensation for the Custodian 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 18 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $35,398 ranks #13 of 18. See Custodian across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Custodianroles 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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Custodian/W&S Building Cleanings
Source-specific fields
Nicholas Jones is a Custodian at W&S Building Cleanings. 2022 total compensation came to $28,553.