Accountant I

Across all employers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, the median wage for Accountants and Auditors — about 13,550 people — is $85,160. Housing & Community Development pays a median base salary of $50,998 for this role, 40% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.

Computed over the 11 of 12 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 Housing & Community Development is $49,629, 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.

Accountant I is held in 23 City of Baltimore departments. In Housing & Community Development, the median of $40,273 ranks #18 of 23.

This role is reported in 38 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $58,712 ranks #23 of 38. See Accountant across all of City of Baltimore →