City of Baltimore / Transportation - Highways / Survey Technician IV
Job-title file
Operate, maintain, and repair equipment or facilities, performing skilled hands-on work.
2 employees hold this title in Transportation - Highways. Median total compensation for the role is $36,181, below the department median of $75,541.
Compared with the local labor market
Across all employers in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD area, the median wage for Surveying and Mapping Technicians — about 160 people — is $63,510. Transportation - Highways pays a median base salary of $57,457 for this role, 10% below that figure — about the 40th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Surveying and Mapping 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 Transportation - Highways’s median base salary for this role. Both figures are base pay only.
And across the country
Nationwide, the median wage for Surveying and Mapping Technicians — about 58,010 people — is $54,240. Transportation - Highways’s median base salary is 6% above that national figure, about the 56th 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 12 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 Transportation - Highways is $55,145, 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 jurisdictions
This role is reported in 4 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $49,746 ranks #3 of 4. See Survey Technician across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Survey Technicianroles 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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Survey Technician IV/Transportation - Highways
Source-specific fields
Kyle Garrett Embrey is a Survey Technician IV at Transportation - Highways. Their tenure dates to 2011, about 14 years. 2025 total compensation came to $72,263.
Survey Technician IV/Transportation - Highways
Source-specific fields
At Transportation - Highways, Darryl Kevin Williams serves as a Survey Technician IV. Hired in 2025, they have under a year of service. Their 2025 pay totaled $100.