City of Baltimore / Finance - Administration & Budgets / HR Generalist I
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
1 employee holds this title in Finance - Administration & Budgets. Median total compensation for the role is $60,098, below the department median of $103,859.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, the median wage for Human Resources Specialists — about 7,930 people — is $82,380. Finance - Administration & Budgets pays a median base salary of $60,098 for this role, 27% below that figure — about the 19th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Human Resources Specialists 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 Finance - Administration & Budgets’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Human Resources Specialists — about 912,430 people — is $75,940. Finance - Administration & Budgets’s median base salary is 21% below that national figure, about the 27th 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.
Median total compensation for this role at Finance - Administration & Budgets is $60,098, 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
HR Generalist I is held in 22 City of Baltimore departments. In Finance - Administration & Budgets, the median of $60,098 ranks #8 of 22.
Median total compensation for the HR Generalist I 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 6 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $63,973 ranks #1 of 6. See HR Generalist across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable HR Generalist roles 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.
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Record list
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HR Generalist I/Finance - Administration & Budgets
Source-specific fields
Sharon L Campbell is a HR Generalist I at Finance - Administration & Budgets. They have served since 2000 (about 25 years). 2025 total compensation came to $60,098.