City of Baltimore / Finance - Collections / Collections Representative I
Job-title file
Coordinate and deliver a specific program area, supporting planning, outreach, and daily operations.
15 employees hold this title in Finance - Collections. Median total compensation for the role is $40,228, below the department median of $51,676.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 15 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 Bill and Account Collectors — about 1,200 people — is $49,970. Finance - Collections pays a median base salary of $47,574 for this role, 5% below that figure — about the 27th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Bill and Account Collectors 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 - Collections’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Bill and Account Collectors — about 158,830 people — is $47,030. Finance - Collections’s median base salary is 1% above that national figure, about the 51st 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 16 of 21 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 Finance - Collections is $42,969, 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 jurisdictions
This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $35,649 ranks #4 of 4. See Collections Representative across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Collections Representativeroles 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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Collections Representative I/Finance - Collections
Source-specific fields
Leslie Tyrell holds the role of Collections Representative I at Finance - Collections. Their tenure dates to 2025, under a year. In 2025, their total compensation was $16,312.