Project Management Specialists salary in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The figures

The median Project Management Specialists in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area earns $103,720 a year ($49.87 an hour), according to the BLS OEWS May 2025 estimates (full citation in Sources). The middle half of Project Management Specialists in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn between $79,600 and $133,590 a year. At the ends of the distribution, the lowest-paid 10 percent earn $63,540 or less and the top 10 percent earn $167,190 or more. BLS estimates 14,700 Project Management Specialists jobs in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area — 10.832 of every 1,000 jobs in the area, a location quotient of 1.58 (well above the national concentration). That is 1.4% of all Project Management Specialists employment in the United States (1,066,670 jobs nationally). By employment, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD is the #17 largest of the 25 covered metro areas for Project Management Specialists. In aggregate, Project Management Specialists in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn about $1.64 billion a year (BLS employment multiplied by the mean wage). At the mean wage, the engine's take-home is $82,297.50 a year, so the aggregate take-home of Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Project Management Specialists is about $1.21 billion. BLS reports a relative standard error of 3% for this employment estimate. Ranked by median pay, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD stands #14 of the 25 metro areas covered on this site for Project Management Specialists. By employment, Project Management Specialists is the #18 largest of the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Placed against the national distribution for Project Management Specialists, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $103,720 falls between the national median ($102,320) and the national 75th percentile ($133,100). Across all occupations, the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median is $59,070 a year — Project Management Specialists pay is 75.6% above the area's overall median.

Wages in detail

What the wage distribution says

The top 10 percent of Project Management Specialists in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD earn 2.6 times what the bottom 10 percent earn ($167,190 against $63,540). The middle half spans $53,990 — from $79,600 to $133,590. Hourly, the 90th percentile ($80.38) is 2.63 times the 10th ($30.55). In the upper half of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD distribution, the 75th percentile wage of $133,590 takes home $96,394.14 and the 90th percentile wage of $167,190 takes home $117,519.34 — $21,125.20 more net for $33,600 more gross. Against the median take-home of $77,157.88, the top decile keeps 1.52 times as much. The mean wage of $111,580 sits 7.6% above the median: higher-paid Project Management Specialists pull the average up in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD. Among the 30 covered occupations in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD, Project Management Specialists ranks #3 by median pay. In the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD wage ladder of covered occupations, Project Management Specialists sits between General and Operations Managers at $117,040 and Registered Nurses at $99,550. Project Management Specialists accounts for 1.1% of all employment in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD metro area. The average covered metro employs 21,846 Project Management Specialists; 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, $77,157.88 of the $103,720 gross is kept ($2,967.61 per paycheck) — a deduction rate of 25.61%. The deduction rate moves with pay: 20.40% at the 10th percentile, 22.85% at the 25th percentile, 27.84% at the 75th percentile, 29.71% at the 90th percentile. Between the 25th and 75th percentile wages, annual take-home rises by $34,982.96 on a gross rise of $53,990.

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 $50,579.52 a year at the 10th percentile to $117,519.34 at the 90th — a spread of $66,939.82 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 Project Management Specialists median take-home of $77,157.88 sits $29,957.14 (above that area-wide figure.

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Take-home pay for $103,720 in Maryland

Against the national median

Nationally, the median Project Management Specialists earns $102,320 a year ($49.19 an hour). The Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD median of $103,720 is $1,400 (1.4%) above the national median.

The means rank the area the same way: $111,580 a year in Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD against $110,740 nationally, a gap of $840 (0.8%).

Set against the whole local market, the Project Management Specialists 90th percentile of $167,190 is 121% of the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD all-occupations 90th percentile ($138,650), and its 10th percentile of $63,540 is 186% 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.