Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators salary in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The figures

The median Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area earns $43,970 a year ($21.14 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn between $38,070 and $49,880 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $35,360 or less and the top 10 percent earn $60,900 or more. BLS estimates 3,170 Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators jobs in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area — 2.337 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.26 (well below the national concentration). That is 0.2% of all Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators employment in the United States (1,405,030 jobs nationally). By employment, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is the #25 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators. In aggregate, Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn about $0.15 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $37,304.58 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators is about $0.12 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 10% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD stands #14 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators. By employment, Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators is the #30 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Placed against the national distribution for Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $43,970 falls between the national 25th percentile ($37,380) and the national median ($44,650). Across all occupations, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median is $59,070 a year — Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators pay is 25.6% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn 1.7 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($60,900 against $35,360). The middle half spans $11,810 — from $38,070 to $49,880. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($29.28) is 1.72 times the 10th ($17.00). In the upper half of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $49,880 takes home $40,252.98 and the 90th percentile wage of $60,900 takes home $48,584.32 — $8,331.34 more net for $11,020 more gross. Against the median take-home of $35,785.20, the top decile keeps 1.36 times as much. The mean wage of $45,980 sits 4.6% above the median: higher-paid Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators pull the average up in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Among the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators ranks #17 by median pay. In the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD wage ladder of covered occupations, Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators sits between Office Clerks, General at $46,250 and Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand at $43,250. Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators accounts for 0.2% of all employment in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area. The average covered metro employs 17,062 Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators; Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD employs 0.2 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, $35,785.20 of the $43,970 gross is kept ($1,376.35 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 18.61%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 17.21% at the 10th percentile, 17.72% at the 25th percentile, 19.30% at the 75th percentile, 20.22% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $8,928.42 on a gross rise of $11,810.

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 $29,276.00 a year at the 10th percentile to $48,584.32 at the 90th — a spread of $19,308.32 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 Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators median take-home of $35,785.20 sits $11,415.54 (below that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $43,970 in Maryland

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators earns $44,650 a year ($21.47 an hour). The Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $43,970 is $680 (1.5%) below the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $45,980 a year in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD against $46,660 nationally, a gap of $680 (1.5%).

Set against the whole local market, the Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators 90th percentile of $60,900 is 44% of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD all-occupations 90th percentile ($138,650), and its 10th percentile of $35,360 is 103% 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.