General and Operations Managers salary in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The figures

The median General and Operations Managers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area earns $117,040 a year ($56.27 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of General and Operations Managers in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn between $78,670 and $169,780 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $58,350 or less and the top 10 percent earn $232,180 or more. BLS estimates 44,960 General and Operations Managers jobs in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area — 33.139 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1.47 (well above the national concentration). That is 1.3% of all General and Operations Managers employment in the United States (3,503,020 jobs nationally). By employment, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is the #13 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for General and Operations Managers. In aggregate, General and Operations Managers in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn about $6.06 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $97,132.54 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD General and Operations Managers is about $4.37 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 2.1% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD stands #13 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for General and Operations Managers. By employment, General and Operations Managers is the #1 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Placed against the national distribution for General and Operations Managers, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $117,040 falls between the national median ($105,770) and the national 75th percentile ($167,280). Across all occupations, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median is $59,070 a year — General and Operations Managers pay is 98.1% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of General and Operations Managers in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn 4.0 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($232,180 against $58,350). The middle half spans $91,110 — from $78,670 to $169,780. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($111.63) is 3.98 times the 10th ($28.06). In the upper half of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $169,780 takes home $119,146.82 and the 90th percentile wage of $232,180 takes home $157,220.70 — $38,073.88 more net for $62,400 more gross. Against the median take-home of $85,865.74, the top decile keeps 1.83 times as much. The mean wage of $134,760 sits 15.1% above the median: higher-paid General and Operations Managers pull the average up in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Among the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, General and Operations Managers ranks #2 by median pay. In the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD wage ladder of covered occupations, General and Operations Managers sits between Software Developers at $138,900 and Project Management Specialists at $103,720. General and Operations Managers accounts for 3.3% of all employment in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area. The average covered metro employs 62,770 General and Operations Managers; Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD employs 0.7 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, $85,865.74 of the $117,040 gross is kept ($3,302.53 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 26.64%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 20.04% at the 10th percentile, 22.71% at the 25th percentile, 29.82% at the 75th percentile, 32.28% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $58,345.58 on a gross rise of $91,110.

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 $46,656.24 a year at the 10th percentile to $157,220.70 at the 90th — a spread of $110,564.46 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 General and Operations Managers median take-home of $85,865.74 sits $38,665.00 (above that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $117,040 in Maryland

Against the national median

Nationally, the median General and Operations Managers earns $105,770 a year ($50.85 an hour). The Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $117,040 is $11,270 (10.7%) above the national median.

The means rank the area differently: $134,760 a year in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD against $134,940 nationally, a gap of $180 (0.1%).

Set against the whole local market, the General and Operations Managers 90th percentile of $232,180 is 167% of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD all-occupations 90th percentile ($138,650), and its 10th percentile of $58,350 is 170% 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.