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Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers · SOC 23-1021

Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers Salary in the Nashville-Davidson Metro Area

Source: BLS OEWS, May 2025Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro area

Figures describe the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metropolitan statistical area as defined by BLS/OMB — the whole multi-county metro region, not Nashville-Davidson city limits.

Median annual wage$107,620
Median hourly wage$51.74

Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers in the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro area earned a median of $107,620 per year ($51.74 per hour) as of the May 2025 BLS OEWS estimates. Pay ranged from $41,660 at the 10th percentile to $187,990 at the 90th. BLS estimates 190 people work in this occupation in the area.

Pay distribution

Half of Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers in the Nashville-Davidson metro area earn more than $107,620 per year, half earn less; the middle half earn between $53,130 and $136,970.

Wage percentiles (BLS OEWS)
Wage10th25thMedian75th90th
Annual$41,660$53,130$107,620$136,970$187,990
Hourly$20.03$25.55$51.74$65.85$90.38

A percentile is a cut point: 25% of workers in this occupation and area earn less than the 25th-percentile wage. The median is the 50th percentile — half earn less, half earn more.

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How this area compares

  • Nashville-Davidson metro areathis metro area
    $107,620
  • Tennesseestate (TN)
    $107,740
  • United Statesnational
    $117,860

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

The median here is about the same vs Tennessee overall and −9% vs the U.S. median for this occupation.

Compare with other areas

Where this metro sits nationally

$61,250$99,883$138,517$177,150Savannah, GA — $61,250Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR — $64,620Boise City, ID — $65,050Lexington-Fayette, KY — $65,670Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA — $72,440Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC — $72,960Columbus, OH — $77,330Reading, PA — $79,510Columbia, SC — $80,820Ogden, UT — $81,330Jackson, MS — $83,780Lancaster, PA — $85,580San Juan-Bayamon-Caguas, PR — $88,530Richmond, VA — $89,380Akron, OH — $93,290Rochester, NY — $93,520Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD — $95,350Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT — $95,990Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN — $97,530San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX — $98,900Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV — $99,720Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA — $100,110Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY — $103,860Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN — $107,620Memphis, TN-MS-AR — $109,300Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA — $109,470Pittsburgh, PA — $111,970Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA — $113,350Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH — $113,750Knoxville, TN — $115,230Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL — $115,920Waco, TX — $115,920Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL — $115,960Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY — $117,540Salt Lake City-Murray, UT — $117,560Syracuse, NY — $117,860Montgomery, AL — $119,430Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX — $121,370Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO — $121,410Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN — $121,720Tucson, AZ — $121,890Winston-Salem, NC — $122,930Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ — $123,240Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX — $124,400New Orleans-Metairie, LA — $124,530Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX — $126,010Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI — $126,360Roanoke, VA — $126,440Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI — $127,420Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA — $127,480Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI — $127,860Jacksonville, FL — $129,960Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA — $130,270Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD — $130,940New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ — $130,960St. Louis, MO-IL — $131,160Cleveland, OH — $131,440Raleigh-Cary, NC — $131,660Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI — $132,250Toledo, OH — $134,930Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN — $138,260Providence-Warwick, RI-MA — $139,240Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC — $140,050Lansing-East Lansing, MI — $144,660Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV — $151,990Kansas City, MO-KS — $164,530Tallahassee, FL — $177,150

Each dot is one metro area with a published median — hover any dot for the name and figure. Metros without published estimates are not drawn.

The Nashville-Davidson metro area has the 44th-highest published median for this occupation among the 67 metro areas where BLS publishes it. Higher medians often track higher living costs — this is a pay comparison, not a ranking of where the job is “best”.

Other metro areas in Tennessee

Metro areas in the same state with published May 2025 medians for administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers, highest first. Areas without published estimates are not listed.

  • Nashville-Davidson metro areathis page
    $107,620
  • Knoxville metro area
    $115,230
  • Memphis metro area
    $109,300

Bars span the 25th–75th percentile (the middle half of workers); the tick marks the median.

Keep exploring

Other occupations in the same SOC group with published medians here, largest employment first:

Lawyers$142,540Paralegals and Legal Assistants$60,800Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers$59,130Judicial Law Clerks$74,010Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates$218,190Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators$55,310

Highest-paying metro areas for administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officerss · Highest-paying occupations in Nashville-Davidson Metro

About this estimate

These figures are survey estimates from the BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program — modeled from employer reports collected over three years and benchmarked to May 2025. They describe what employers in this area currently pay across all industries, not what any individual worker will be offered.

Employment counts wage-and-salary jobs in the occupation (self-employed workers are excluded). Estimates carry sampling error; percentile wages are rounded by BLS. Some values are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality or quality — suppressed values appear here as “not published”, never as zero. Read the full methodology.

About this data. Estimates are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 release, retrieved from bls.gov/oes/tables.htm on July 24, 2026. OEWS estimates describe metropolitan/nonmetropolitan areas and states — not city limits — and are not designed for year-over-year comparisons. See BLS methodology, our plain-English methodology, and sources. CitySalaryData is independent and not affiliated with BLS.