Metro Nashville / Assistant Purchasing
Role across Metro Nashville
Assistant Purchasing
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
5 people hold the Assistant Purchasing role across 1 department in Metro Nashville, with a median total compensation of $37,323.
- Employees
- 5
- Median pay
- $37,323
- Departments
- 1
- Cross-jurisdiction
- #1 of 1
Compared with the local labor market
Assistant Purchasing pay vs. the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area
Across all employers in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN area, the median wage for Buyers and Purchasing Agents — about 3,660 people — is $68,130. Metro Nashville pays a median base salary of $38,318 for this role, 44% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Metro Nashville sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Buyers and Purchasing Agents 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 Metro Nashville’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Buyers and Purchasing Agents — about 491,430 people — is $77,710. Metro Nashville’s median base salary is 51% 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 4 of 5 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 Metro Nashville is $37,323, 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.