Compared with the local labor market
Automotive Mechanic Apprentice pay vs. the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area
Across all employers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, the median wage for Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics — about 6,340 people — is $57,630. General Services pays a median base salary of $49,888 for this role, 13% below that figure — about the 40th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
Where General Services sits in the local pay range
$35,290
$38,620
$57,630
$74,910
$80,800
General Services median · $49,888
The bar is the range of annual wages for Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics 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 General Services’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics — about 704,640 people — is $50,620. General Services’s median base salary is 1% below that national figure, about the 48th percentile of pay for the occupation nationally.
$34,660
$38,900
$50,620
$70,430
$81,790
General Services median · $49,888
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 4 of 6 people in this role paid at least $25,000 in 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 General Services is $47,841, 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
This role across City of Baltimore
Automotive Mechanic Apprentice is held in 2 City of Baltimore departments. In General Services, the median of $46,250 ranks #1 of 2.
Highest-paying departments for this role
Median total compensation for the Automotive Mechanic Apprentice role in other City of Baltimoredepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.