Tennessee / Agriculture / Forestry Technician
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
60 employees hold this title in Agriculture. Median total compensation for the role is $59,381, above the department median of $53,027.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 60 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 Tennessee, the median wage for Forest and Conservation Technicians — about 390 people — is $47,940. Agriculture pays a median base salary of $57,840 for this role, 21% above that figure — about the 77th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Forest and Conservation Technicians across every employer in Tennessee, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Agriculture’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Forest and Conservation Technicians — about 30,410 people — is $54,560. Agriculture’s median base salary is 6% above that national figure, about the 56th 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 Tennessee range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Agriculture is $59,381, 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 jurisdictions
This role is reported in 6 jurisdictions. In Tennessee, the median of $59,381 ranks #1 of 6. See Forestry Technician across all of Tennessee →
Median total compensation for comparable Forestry Technicianroles 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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Forestry Technician/Agriculture
Source-specific fields
Darren Webb holds the role of Forestry Technician at Agriculture within West TN District. Their status is full-time. In 2026, their total compensation was $61,441.