Construction Laborers salary in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The figures

The median Construction Laborers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area earns $46,460 a year ($22.34 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Construction Laborers in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn between $38,940 and $55,450 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $36,150 or less and the top 10 percent earn $59,780 or more. BLS estimates 10,520 Construction Laborers jobs in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area — 7.752 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1.1 (above the national concentration). That is 1.0% of all Construction Laborers employment in the United States (1,096,780 jobs nationally). By employment, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is the #21 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Construction Laborers. In aggregate, Construction Laborers in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn about $0.50 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $38,559.50 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Construction Laborers is about $0.41 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 9.3% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD stands #17 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Construction Laborers. By employment, Construction Laborers is the #26 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Placed against the national distribution for Construction Laborers, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $46,460 falls between the national 25th percentile ($38,620) and the national median ($47,120). Across all occupations, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median is $59,070 a year — Construction Laborers pay is 21.3% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Construction Laborers in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn 1.7 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($59,780 against $36,150). The middle half spans $16,510 — from $38,940 to $55,450. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($28.74) is 1.65 times the 10th ($17.38). In the upper half of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $55,450 takes home $44,463.70 and the 90th percentile wage of $59,780 takes home $47,737.32 — $3,273.62 more net for $4,330 more gross. Against the median take-home of $37,667.58, the top decile keeps 1.27 times as much. The mean wage of $47,640 sits 2.5% above the median: higher-paid Construction Laborers pull the average up in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Among the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Construction Laborers ranks #15 by median pay. In the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD wage ladder of covered occupations, Construction Laborers sits between First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers at $46,760 and Office Clerks, General at $46,250. Construction Laborers accounts for 0.8% of all employment in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area. The average covered metro employs 17,175 Construction Laborers; Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD employs 0.6 times that.

Take-home pay on the median wage in Maryland

Single filer, no dependents, no pre-tax contributions, paid biweekly, a full year of W-2 wages in Maryland; city and local taxes are not included:

At the median, $37,667.58 of the $46,460 gross is kept ($1,448.75 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 18.92%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 17.36% at the 10th percentile, 17.87% at the 25th percentile, 19.81% at the 75th percentile, 20.14% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $12,481.56 on a gross rise of $16,510.

The same engine at the other published points of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD wage distribution:

Across the published distribution, take-home pay runs from $29,873.08 a year at the 10th percentile to $47,737.32 at the 90th — a spread of $17,864.24 of net pay inside one occupation and one metro area.

For scale: across all occupations, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median wage of $59,070 takes home $47,200.74 a year ($1,815.41 per paycheck, deduction rate 20.09%). The Construction Laborers median take-home of $37,667.58 sits $9,533.16 (below that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $46,460 in Maryland

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Construction Laborers earns $47,120 a year ($22.66 an hour). The Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $46,460 is $660 (1.4%) below the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $47,640 a year in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD against $52,030 nationally, a gap of $4,390 (8.4%).

Set against the whole local market, the Construction Laborers 90th percentile of $59,780 is 43% of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD all-occupations 90th percentile ($138,650), and its 10th percentile of $36,150 is 106% of the area-wide 10th ($34,230).

Sources and method

Wage data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2025 estimates (released May 15, 2026), retrieved October 27, 2026 — bls.gov/oes. OEWS figures are survey estimates for May 2025, not job offers. Take-home pay is computed by this site's paycheck engine with 2026 federal and state rules; the method, and what the engine does not model, is documented in the paycheck methodology guide. Estimates only — not tax advice.