Office Clerks, General salary in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The figures

The median Office Clerks, General in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area earns $46,250 a year ($22.24 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Office Clerks, General in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn between $38,370 and $54,900 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $33,440 or less and the top 10 percent earn $65,050 or more. BLS estimates 10,880 Office Clerks, General jobs in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area — 8.018 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 0.51 (well below the national concentration). That is 0.4% of all Office Clerks, General employment in the United States (2,464,940 jobs nationally). By employment, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is the #25 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Office Clerks, General. In aggregate, Office Clerks, General in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn about $0.52 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $38,930.16 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Office Clerks, General is about $0.42 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 4.1% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD stands #15 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Office Clerks, General. By employment, Office Clerks, General is the #24 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Placed against the national distribution for Office Clerks, General, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $46,250 falls between the national median ($45,010) and the national 75th percentile ($54,300). Across all occupations, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median is $59,070 a year — Office Clerks, General pay is 21.7% below the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Office Clerks, General in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn 1.9 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($65,050 against $33,440). The middle half spans $16,530 — from $38,370 to $54,900. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($31.28) is 1.95 times the 10th ($16.08). In the upper half of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $54,900 takes home $44,047.86 and the 90th percentile wage of $65,050 takes home $51,721.36 — $7,673.50 more net for $10,150 more gross. Against the median take-home of $37,508.54, the top decile keeps 1.38 times as much. The mean wage of $48,130 sits 4.1% above the median: higher-paid Office Clerks, General pull the average up in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Among the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Office Clerks, General ranks #16 by median pay. In the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD wage ladder of covered occupations, Office Clerks, General sits between Construction Laborers at $46,460 and Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators at $43,970. Office Clerks, General accounts for 0.8% of all employment in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area. The average covered metro employs 40,408 Office Clerks, General; Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD employs 0.3 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, $37,508.54 of the $46,250 gross is kept ($1,442.64 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 18.90%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 16.79% at the 10th percentile, 17.77% at the 25th percentile, 19.77% at the 75th percentile, 20.49% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $12,496.62 on a gross rise of $16,530.

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 $27,824.26 a year at the 10th percentile to $51,721.36 at the 90th — a spread of $23,897.10 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 Office Clerks, General median take-home of $37,508.54 sits $9,692.20 (below that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $46,250 in Maryland

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Office Clerks, General earns $45,010 a year ($21.64 an hour). The Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $46,250 is $1,240 (2.8%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $48,130 a year in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD against $46,420 nationally, a gap of $1,710 (3.7%).

Set against the whole local market, the Office Clerks, General 90th percentile of $65,050 is 47% of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD all-occupations 90th percentile ($138,650), and its 10th percentile of $33,440 is 98% 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.