Metro Nashville / Ws Waste Management Drop Off Recycle Centers / Sanitation Worker
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
1 employee holds this title in Ws Waste Management Drop Off Recycle Centers. Median total compensation for the role is $59,129, above the department median of $47,573.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, the median wage for Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors — about 520 people — is $57,650. Ws Waste Management Drop Off Recycle Centers pays a median base salary of $41,795 for this role, 28% below that figure — about the 25th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors 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 Ws Waste Management Drop Off Recycle Centers’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors — about 147,240 people — is $49,690. Ws Waste Management Drop Off Recycle Centers’s median base salary is 16% below that national figure, about the 31st 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 Ws Waste Management Drop Off Recycle Centers is $59,129, 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
Sanitation Worker is held in 18 Metro Nashville departments. In Ws Waste Management Drop Off Recycle Centers, the median of $59,129 ranks #1 of 18.
Median total compensation for the Sanitation Worker 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 4 jurisdictions. In Metro Nashville, the median of $9,700 ranks #3 of 4. See Sanitation Worker across all of Metro Nashville →
Median total compensation for comparable Sanitation Worker roles 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
Page 1
Sanitation Worker/Ws Waste Management Drop Off Recycle Centers
Source-specific fields
John Locke is a Sanitation Worker at Ws Waste Management Drop Off Recycle Centers. 2023 total compensation came to $59,129.