City of Baltimore / Housing & Community Development / Secretary II
Job-title file
Provide administrative support — record-keeping, scheduling, correspondence, and customer service.
11 employees hold this title in Housing & Community Development. Median total compensation for the role is $29,207, below the department median of $43,977.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 11 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 Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 29,780 people — is $49,220. Housing & Community Development pays a median base salary of $32,632 for this role, 34% below that figure — below the 10th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 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 Housing & Community Development’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive — about 1,706,790 people — is $47,540. Housing & Community Development’s median base salary is 31% below that national figure, below the 10th 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 11 of 14 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 $31,973, 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
Secretary II is held in 49 City of Baltimore departments. In Housing & Community Development, the median of $29,207 ranks #41 of 49.
Median total compensation for the Secretary II 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 27 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $38,859 ranks #18 of 27. See Secretary across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Secretary 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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Secretary II/Housing & Community Development
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Joyce Jones Magwood holds the role of Secretary II at Housing & Community Development. They have served since 1988 (about 24 years). In 2012, their total compensation was $36,620.
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Anita Buckson holds the role of Secretary II at Housing & Community Development. Their tenure dates to 2006, about 8 years. In 2014, their total compensation was $32,861.
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Irena Prifti holds the role of Secretary II at Housing & Community Development. Their tenure dates to 2008, about 4 years. In 2012, their total compensation was $32,632.
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At Housing & Community Development, Karen Gilmore serves as a Secretary II. Their tenure dates to 2010, about 4 years. Their 2014 pay totaled $32,479.
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Gwendolyn Brown holds the role of Secretary II at Housing & Community Development. Their tenure dates to 2010, about 4 years. In 2014, their total compensation was $31,467.
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At Housing & Community Development, Sheila Major serves as a Secretary II. Hired in 2011, they have about 3 years of service. Their 2014 pay totaled $29,207.
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At Housing & Community Development, Jeffrey Randall serves as a Secretary II. Their tenure dates to 2012, about 2 years. Their 2014 pay totaled $28,630.
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Gloria Evans Miles works as a Secretary II for Housing & Community Development. Hired in 2007, they have about 4 years of service. Gloria earned $28,562 in 2011.
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Umar Abdul Hamid holds the role of Secretary II at Housing & Community Development. Hired in 1995, they have about 19 years of service. In 2014, their total compensation was $12,947.
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Margie Dorsey is a Secretary II at Housing & Community Development. Hired in 2014, they have under a year of service. 2014 total compensation came to $11,561.
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Erin Gray holds the role of Secretary II at Housing & Community Development. They have served since 2014 (under a year). In 2014, their total compensation was $7,568.