Fire Dispatcher

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 pays a median base salary of $71,921 for this role, 18% above that figure — about the 78th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Median total compensation for this role at Fire Department is $71,921, 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.

Fire Dispatcher is held in 2 City of Baltimore departments. In Fire Department, the median of $83,970 ranks #1 of 2.

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 →