City of Baltimore / Retire - Fire & Police / Associate General Counsel
Job-title file
Provide legal advice, draft and review documents, and represent the agency in legal matters.
1 employees hold this title in Retire - Fire & Police. Median total compensation for the role is $121,074, above the department median of $82,131.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, the median wage for Lawyers — about 7,520 people — is $132,400. Retire - Fire & Police pays a median base salary of $114,163 for this role, 14% below that figure — about the 35th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Lawyers 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 Retire - Fire & Police’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Lawyers — about 754,500 people — is $159,670. Retire - Fire & Police’s median base salary is 29% below that national figure, about the 30th 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 Retire - Fire & Police is $114,163, 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
Associate General Counsel is held in 2 City of Baltimore departments. In Retire - Fire & Police, the median of $121,074 ranks #1 of 2.
Median total compensation for the Associate General Counsel 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 2 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $107,251 ranks #2 of 2. See Associate General Counsel across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Associate General Counsel 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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Associate General Counsel/Retire - Fire & Police
Source-specific fields
Heather Rae Pensyl works as a Associate General Counsel for Retire - Fire & Police. They have served since 2014 (about 11 years). Heather earned $121,074 in 2025.