City of Baltimore / Convention Center / Maintenance Mechanic
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
10 employees hold this title in Convention Center. Median total compensation for the role is $58,719, above the department median of $48,424.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 10 people in this role. Even for one job title, pay differs with seniority, step, overtime, and tenure. Each bar is a pay range; the far-right bar collects the highest earners.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, the median wage for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General — about 11,250 people — is $52,100. Convention Center pays a median base salary of $58,251 for this role, 12% above that figure — about the 65th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General across every employer in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, from the 10th to the 90th percentile, with the middle 50% highlighted. The marker shows Convention Center’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Maintenance and Repair Workers, General — about 1,529,700 people — is $49,590. Convention Center’s median base salary is 17% above that national figure, about the 67th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
Local and national wages differ for reasons beyond how well a job pays — cost of living, the mix of employers, and local demand for the occupation all move the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD range relative to the national one.
Computed over the 17 of 18 people in this role paid at least $25,000in base salary. The rest are part-year or part-time records, whose actual pay isn’t comparable to a full-time annual wage.
Median total compensation for this role at Convention Center is $57,909, which includes overtime and employer-paid benefits. The benchmark above excludes both, so total compensation is deliberately not compared against it.
Benchmark: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025). BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) covers all employers in the area — private, non-profit, and government alike — so this is a comparison against the whole local labor market for the occupation, not against private-sector pay. OEWS wages are straight-time pay and exclude overtime, shift differentials, and employer-paid benefits, so the government figure shown here is base pay on the same basis. Total compensation is not comparable to it. Job titles are matched to the closest standard occupation, so the comparison is between similar work rather than an identical job classification.
Compare departments
Maintenance Mechanic is held in 2 City of Baltimore departments. In Convention Center, the median of $58,719 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Maintenance Mechanic role in other City of Baltimoredepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Compare jurisdictions
This role is reported in 11 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $50,202 ranks #8 of 11. See Maintenance Mechanic across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Maintenance Mechanicroles in other jurisdictions. Titles are matched by normalized name across sources, not identical job classification, and pay is not cost-of-living adjusted. Each bar links to that jurisdiction’s page for the role.
Record list
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Maintenance Mechanic/Convention Center
Source-specific fields
Beide Menghisteab is a Maintenance Mechanic at Convention Center. They have served since 2023 (about 2 years). 2025 total compensation came to $54,078.