Tennessee personal representative compensation
Tennessee executor fees
Tennessee has no statutory percentage schedule; the personal representative receives reasonable compensation fixed by the court. Tenn. Code Ann. § 30-2-323, sometimes cited for compensation, governs 'advances for property maintenance expenses' (Acts 1997, ch. 426), not compensation. No enacted public chapter restating a compensation standard was found, and the codified provisions are published only through LexisNexis, so no standard is quoted here.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Sources rechecked October 3, 2026. This page last revised .
How Tennessee sets executor compensation
No primary source this site can verify sets the rule, so the calculator returns no Tennessee number. Ask the Chancery Court (Probate Court in Davidson and Shelby Counties) whether a local rule or standing order governs fiduciary fees, and read the will first, because it may set the fee.
Why no Tennessee compensation figure appears on this page
Tennessee does not publish its code as free text on a state government website. The Tennessee Code Annotated is published under an exclusive arrangement with LexisNexis, and the free public version the state advertises is a LexisNexis service rather than a state page.
As of the date recorded below, this site had not confirmed the current compensation provision from that service, so no rule is quoted. Every neighbouring state on this site — Kentucky, North Carolina, Florida, New Jersey — publishes its text on a government website, which is why those pages quote a rule and this one does not.
The consequence is deliberate. This site does not restate a Tennessee percentage or a "reasonable compensation" formulation taken from a law-firm summary, because a figure copied from a secondary source and presented in the same typography as a quoted statute is indistinguishable, to a reader, from one that was actually verified.
The reliable route for a Tennessee estate is the clerk of the court with probate jurisdiction in the county of venue, who applies the current code to the accounting the estate actually files.
Compensation is the harder of the two Tennessee blanks to work around, because unlike a filing fee it is not something a clerk quotes in advance. A percentage schedule, if one applies, is read against the value the accounting reports; a reasonableness standard, if that is the form it takes, is decided by the court on the record the representative builds. Neither can be estimated from the outside, and the difference between the two changes what a representative should be documenting from the first month.
What can be said without the text is structural. Tennessee’s neighbours split cleanly on this question: New Jersey publishes a hard schedule — 5% on the first $200,000 of corpus, 3.5% on the excess to $1,000,000, 2% above that — while Pennsylvania publishes only that the court "shall allow such compensation … as shall in the circumstances be reasonable and just," and Kentucky, North Carolina, Florida and Oregon each land somewhere between. A reader who assumes Tennessee resembles whichever neighbour they know best has a better-than-even chance of being wrong.
Authority that would settle this: Tenn. Code Ann. tit. 30 (compensation of personal representatives). The access attempt described above was made on 2026-09-17. Nothing is quoted from it, because nothing could be read from it; a figure restated from a secondary summary would look like a sourced answer without being one.
Sources rechecked October 3, 2026: Tennessee source list · how sources are checked · report a correction