Tennessee / Wildlife Resources / Wildlife Officer
Job-title file
Wildlife Officer
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
135 employees hold this title in Wildlife Resources. Median total compensation for the role is $72,012, above the department median of $72,012.
- Employees
- 135
- Total payroll
- $9.8M
- Role median
- $72,012
- Agency median
- $72,012
- Comparison
- Above
What the records show
Role pay distribution
Pay distribution for this role
How total compensation varies among the 135 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
Wildlife Officer pay vs. Tennessee
Across all employers in Tennessee, the median wage for Fish and Game Wardens — about 220 people — is $75,930. Wildlife Resources pays a median base salary of $72,012 for this role, 5% below that figure — about the 40th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where Wildlife Resources sits in the local pay range
The bar is the range of annual wages for Fish and Game Wardens across every employer in Tennessee, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Wildlife Resources’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Fish and Game Wardens — about 5,770 people — is $74,060. Wildlife Resources’s median base salary is 3% below that national figure, about the 46th 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 Wildlife Resources is $72,012, 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.
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