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How much do Lighting Technicians make in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Lighting Technicians in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN is $62,790. The 10th percentile is $45,110 and the 90th percentile is $143,000. Employment is 160.

Median annual wage

$62,790

10th percentile
$45,110
25th percentile
$45,760
Median
$62,790
75th percentile
$132,210
90th percentile
$143,000
Mean
$85,710

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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A nurse with a patient at a hospital centre in Birmingham. Wellcome Collection. Photograph by Wellcome Collection. Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0

Percentile spread

For Lighting Technicians, the published 10th percentile is $45,110 and the 90th percentile is $143,000. The difference is $97,890, which is 155.9% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $45,760 to the 75th at $132,210, covers $86,450.

The mean annual wage is $85,710, which sits above the median of $62,790. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN median is 7.7% lower than the national median of $68,060 for Lighting Technicians. In 2024 national prices the local median is $65,177, which is 4.2% lower than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 3.2% higher than the Tennessee median of $60,870.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN is 96.338, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $62,790 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Lighting Technicians at $65,177 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Lighting Technicians in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Lighting Technicians accounts for 0.01% of wage-and-salary employment in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN (160 of 1,099,300). Nationally the occupation is 0.01% of employment (8,900 of 155,495,730). The local share is 2.54 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

Highest-paying jobs in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN · Lighting Technicians by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Lighting Technicians make in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Lighting Technicians in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN is $62,790. The 10th percentile is $45,110 and the 90th percentile is $143,000. Employment is 160.

How does that compare with the national median for Lighting Technicians?

The local median is 7.7% lower than the national median of $68,060.

What is Lighting Technicians pay in Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN is 96.338, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $62,790 is $65,177. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.