City of Baltimore / Public Works - Water & Waste Water / Painter I
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
1 employees hold this title in Public Works - Water & Waste Water. Median total compensation for the role is $47,384, below the department median of $76,741.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, the median wage for Painters, Construction and Maintenance — about 1,460 people — is $48,600. Public Works - Water & Waste Water pays a median base salary of $51,223 for this role, 5% above that figure — about the 56th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Painters, Construction and Maintenance 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 - Water & Waste Water’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Painters, Construction and Maintenance — about 225,190 people — is $49,400. Public Works - Water & Waste Water’s median base salary is 4% above that national figure, about the 54th 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 3 of 4 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 - Water & Waste Water is $51,149, 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
Painter I is held in 6 City of Baltimore departments. In Public Works - Water & Waste Water, the median of $47,384 ranks #1 of 6.
Median total compensation for the Painter I 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 28 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $42,109 ranks #21 of 28. See Painter across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Painterroles 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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Source-specific fields
This Painter I record at Public Works - Water & Waste Water for Jamal Johnson may represent several individuals, totaling $47,384 in 2021.