City of Baltimore / R&P-Parks / Forestry Technician
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
1 employees hold this title in R&P-Parks. Median total compensation for the role is $46,739, above the department median of $42,615.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, the median wage for Forest and Conservation Technicians — about 40 people — is $60,270. R&P-Parks pays a median base salary of $46,739 for this role, 22% below that figure — about the 21st percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Forest and Conservation Technicians 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 R&P-Parks’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Forest and Conservation Technicians — about 30,410 people — is $54,560. R&P-Parks’s median base salary is 14% below that national figure, about the 24th 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.
Median total compensation for this role at R&P-Parks is $46,739, 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
Forestry Technician is held in 2 City of Baltimore departments. In R&P-Parks, the median of $46,739 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Forestry Technician 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 6 jurisdictions. See Forestry Technician across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Forestry Technician 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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Forestry Technician/R&P-Parks
Source-specific fields
Ronald Anderson holds the role of Forestry Technician at R&P-Parks. Hired in 1987, they have about 27 years of service. In 2014, their total compensation was $46,739.