Business Operations Specialists, All Other salary in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The figures

The median Business Operations Specialists, All Other in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area earns $98,060 a year ($47.14 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Business Operations Specialists, All Other in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn between $73,000 and $125,050 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $55,460 or less and the top 10 percent earn $156,750 or more. BLS estimates 16,400 Business Operations Specialists, All Other jobs in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area — 12.085 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1.73 (well above the national concentration). That is 1.5% of all Business Operations Specialists, All Other employment in the United States (1,087,090 jobs nationally). By employment, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is the #12 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Business Operations Specialists, All Other. In aggregate, Business Operations Specialists, All Other in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn about $1.68 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $76,456.04 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Business Operations Specialists, All Other is about $1.25 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 4.9% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD stands #5 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Business Operations Specialists, All Other. By employment, Business Operations Specialists, All Other is the #14 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Placed against the national distribution for Business Operations Specialists, All Other, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $98,060 falls between the national median ($83,050) and the national 75th percentile ($114,010). Across all occupations, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median is $59,070 a year — Business Operations Specialists, All Other pay is 66.0% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Business Operations Specialists, All Other in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn 2.8 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($156,750 against $55,460). The middle half spans $52,050 — from $73,000 to $125,050. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($75.36) is 2.83 times the 10th ($26.67). In the upper half of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $125,050 takes home $90,994.94 and the 90th percentile wage of $156,750 takes home $110,957.50 — $19,962.56 more net for $31,700 more gross. Against the median take-home of $73,520.94, the top decile keeps 1.51 times as much. The mean wage of $102,650 sits 4.7% above the median: higher-paid Business Operations Specialists, All Other pull the average up in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Among the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Business Operations Specialists, All Other ranks #5 by median pay. In the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD wage ladder of covered occupations, Business Operations Specialists, All Other sits between Registered Nurses at $99,550 and Accountants and Auditors at $85,160. Business Operations Specialists, All Other accounts for 1.2% of all employment in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area. The average covered metro employs 22,269 Business Operations Specialists, All Other; 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, $73,520.94 of the $98,060 gross is kept ($2,827.73 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 25.02%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 19.81% at the 10th percentile, 21.81% at the 25th percentile, 27.23% at the 75th percentile, 29.21% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $33,913.44 on a gross rise of $52,050.

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 $44,471.36 a year at the 10th percentile to $110,957.50 at the 90th — a spread of $66,486.14 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 Business Operations Specialists, All Other median take-home of $73,520.94 sits $26,320.20 (above that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $98,060 in Maryland

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Business Operations Specialists, All Other earns $83,050 a year ($39.93 an hour). The Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $98,060 is $15,010 (18.1%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $102,650 a year in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD against $93,970 nationally, a gap of $8,680 (9.2%).

Set against the whole local market, the Business Operations Specialists, All Other 90th percentile of $156,750 is 113% of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD all-occupations 90th percentile ($138,650), and its 10th percentile of $55,460 is 162% 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.