Tennessee / Human Services / Eligibility Assistant
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
321 employees hold this title in Human Services. Median total compensation for the role is $33,732, below the department median of $50,886.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 321 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 Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs — about 4,060 people — is $49,230. Human Services pays a median base salary of $33,444 for this role, 32% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs across every employer in Tennessee, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Human Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs — about 154,800 people — is $54,210. Human Services’s median base salary is 38% 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 Tennessee range relative to the national one.
Median total compensation for this role at Human Services is $33,732, 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.
Record list
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Eligibility Assistant/Human Services
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At Human Services, Patricia Austin serves as a Eligibility Assistant within Field Operations_Family Assist. They work full-time. Their 2026 pay totaled $43,881.
Eligibility Assistant/Human Services
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Kathy Ogle holds the role of Eligibility Assistant at Human Services within Field Operations_Family Assist. Their status is full-time. In 2026, their total compensation was $43,732.
Eligibility Assistant/Human Services
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Michele Skinner-Hutson holds the role of Eligibility Assistant at Human Services within Field Operations_Family Assist. Their status is full-time. In 2026, their total compensation was $43,710.
Eligibility Assistant/Human Services
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Wendy Clayton works as a Eligibility Assistant for Human Services within Field Operations_Family Assist. Their status is full-time. Wendy earned $43,671 in 2026.
Eligibility Assistant/Human Services
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Janet Wingate is a Eligibility Assistant at Human Services within Family Assistance Field Staff. They work full-time. 2026 total compensation came to $43,487.
Eligibility Assistant/Human Services
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Dana Gentry works as a Eligibility Assistant for Human Services within Family Assistance Field Staff. Their status is full-time. Dana earned $43,308 in 2026.
Eligibility Assistant/Human Services
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Tateanna Lanxter holds the role of Eligibility Assistant at Human Services within Field Operations_Family Assist. Their status is full-time. In 2026, their total compensation was $43,230.