City of Baltimore / General Services / Office Assistant III
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
12 employees hold this title in General Services. Median total compensation for the role is $35,724, below the department median of $69,986.
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 Office Clerks, General — about 10,880 people — is $46,250. General Services pays a median base salary of $35,060 for this role, 24% below that figure — about the 15th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Office Clerks, General 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 Office Clerks, General — about 2,464,940 people — is $45,010. General Services’s median base salary is 22% below that national figure, about the 22nd 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 19 of 20 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 $34,801, 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
Office Assistant III is held in 161 City of Baltimore departments. In General Services, the median of $35,724 ranks #104 of 161.
Median total compensation for the Office Assistant III 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 13 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $34,102 ranks #8 of 13. See Office Assistant across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Office Assistant 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.
Record list
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Office Assistant III/General Services
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Carolyn Lawson is a Office Assistant III at General Services. Their tenure dates to 1974, about 38 years. 2012 total compensation came to $44,869.
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At General Services, Kim Steele serves as a Office Assistant III. Hired in 1980, they have about 34 years of service. Their 2014 pay totaled $44,525.
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At General Services, Patrica Horner serves as a Office Assistant III. Hired in 1980, they have about 34 years of service. Their 2014 pay totaled $43,302.
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Dorthea Mcfarlane holds the role of Office Assistant III at General Services. They have served since 1980 (about 34 years). In 2014, their total compensation was $38,841.
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At General Services, Teneil Hall serves as a Office Assistant III. Their tenure dates to 2011, about 3 years. Their 2014 pay totaled $36,303.
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Tamara Mays holds the role of Office Assistant III at General Services. They have served since 1990 (about 24 years). In 2014, their total compensation was $36,002.
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Lynn Jones holds the role of Office Assistant III at General Services. Hired in 1990, they have about 24 years of service. In 2014, their total compensation was $35,446.
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At General Services, Karen Doles serves as a Office Assistant III. Their tenure dates to 1995, about 19 years. Their 2014 pay totaled $35,374.
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Lynn Lee works as a Office Assistant III for General Services. Hired in 1990, they have about 22 years of service. Lynn earned $34,126 in 2012.
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Sarena Townsend holds the role of Office Assistant III at General Services. They have served since 1999 (about 13 years). In 2012, their total compensation was $34,004.
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Leslie Cabean is a Office Assistant III at General Services. Hired in 1980, they have about 31 years of service. 2011 total compensation came to $33,417.
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Aisha Abdullah holds the role of Office Assistant III at General Services. Hired in 2013, they have about a year of service. In 2014, their total compensation was $29,110.