Tennessee / Mental Health / Custodial Worker 1
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
53 employees hold this title in Mental Health. Median total compensation for the role is $32,436, below the department median of $52,260.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 53 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 Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners — about 38,120 people — is $33,440. Mental Health pays a median base salary of $33,780 for this role, 1% above that figure — about the 52nd 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 Tennessee, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Mental Health’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. Mental Health’s median base salary is 8% below that national figure, about the 33rd 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 Mental Health is $33,788, 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
Custodial Worker 1 is held in 3 Tennessee departments. In Mental Health, the median of $32,436 ranks #1 of 3.
Median total compensation for the Custodial Worker 1 role in other Tennesseedepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 14 jurisdictions. In Tennessee, the median of $33,876 ranks #9 of 14. See Custodial Worker across all of Tennessee →
Median total compensation for comparable Custodial Workerroles 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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Custodial Worker 1/Mental Health
Source-specific fields
Shimikius Rivers works as a Custodial Worker 1 for Mental Health within Housekeeping. Their status is full-time. Shimikius earned $33,112 in 2026.