City of Baltimore / Fire Department (603) / Fire Dispatcher
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
12 employees hold this title in Fire Department (603). Median total compensation for the role is $53,018, below the department median of $73,544.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 12 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 Public Safety Telecommunicators — about 780 people — is $61,080. Fire Department (603) pays a median base salary of $70,321 for this role, 15% above that figure — about the 74th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Public Safety Telecommunicators 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 Fire Department (603)’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Public Safety Telecommunicators — about 102,500 people — is $53,040. Fire Department (603)’s median base salary is 33% above that national figure, about the 81st 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 Fire Department (603) is $70,321, 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
Fire Dispatcher is held in 2 City of Baltimore departments. In Fire Department (603), the median of $53,018 ranks #2 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Fire Dispatcher 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 4 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $71,320 ranks #2 of 4. See Fire Dispatcher across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Fire Dispatcherroles 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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Fire Dispatcher/Fire Department (603)
Source-specific fields
At Fire Department (603), Nicole Green serves as a Fire Dispatcher. Hired in 2012, they have about 8 years of service. Their 2020 pay totaled $56,488.