City of Baltimore / Public Works - Solid Waste / Cdl Driver II
Job-title file
Operate vehicles or heavy equipment safely to move people or materials, and perform routine checks.
65 employees hold this title in Public Works - Solid Waste. Median total compensation for the role is $68,184, above the department median of $49,584.
What the records show
How total compensation varies among the 65 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 Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers — about 15,580 people — is $59,460. Public Works - Solid Waste pays a median base salary of $62,118 for this role, 4% above that figure — about the 57th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 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 Public Works - Solid Waste’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers — about 2,062,040 people — is $58,640. Public Works - Solid Waste’s median base salary is 6% above that national figure, about the 58th 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 141 of 151 people in this role paid at least $25,000in 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 Public Works - Solid Waste is $60,446, 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.
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Cdl Driver II is held in 56 City of Baltimore departments. In Public Works - Solid Waste, the median of $68,184 ranks #14 of 56.
Median total compensation for the Cdl Driver II role in other City of Baltimoredepartments (highest first). Each bar links to that department’s page for this role.
Record list
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Cdl Driver II/Public Works - Solid Waste
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Marlon Harlee works as a Cdl Driver II for Public Works - Solid Waste. They have served since 2023 (about 2 years). Marlon earned $47,834 in 2025.
Cdl Driver II/Public Works - Solid Waste
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Michael Burrell works as a Cdl Driver II for Public Works - Solid Waste. Their tenure dates to 2024, about a year. Michael earned $45,402 in 2025.
Cdl Driver II/Public Works - Solid Waste
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Ross Cousin holds the role of Cdl Driver II at Public Works - Solid Waste. Their tenure dates to 2023, about 2 years. In 2025, their total compensation was $43,870.