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title: "Average Salary in Baltimore, MD"
description: "Mean $76,370, median $59,070 in the Baltimore metro area (BLS OEWS May 2025), with prices and top jobs."
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last-updated: "2026-10-15T08:19:32.066Z"
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# Average salary in Baltimore, MD

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metropolitan statistical area. Mean annual wage $76,370, median $59,070 (US: $69,770 / $50,980), BLS OEWS May 2025, 1,356,680 jobs. Median at national-average prices: $56,530.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $34,230 |
| 25th | $39,160 |
| 50th | $59,070 |
| 75th | $95,340 |
| 90th | $138,650 |

| Price level (BEA RPP 2024, US = 100) | Index |
| --- | --- |
| All items | 104.5 |
| Housing (rents) | 118.2 |
| Goods | 102.4 |
| Utilities | 110.2 |
| Other services | 101.5 |

## Highest-paying jobs (mean annual wage)

- [Ophthalmologist, Except Pediatric](https://nuecareer.com/careers/ophthalmologist): $223,290
- [Nurse Anesthetist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nurse-anesthetist): $217,780
- [Podiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/podiatrist): $200,660
- [Dentist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dentist): $184,410
- [Pediatrician, General](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatrician-general): $182,960
- [Judge](https://nuecareer.com/careers/judge): $177,530
- [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager): $173,800
- [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager): $170,830
- [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager): $167,230
- [Aerospace Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/aerospace-engineer): $165,170

Occupation pay is the OEWS May 2025 metro mean as published in the DOL OFLC 2026–27 wage file (metro-level estimates only).

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

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