City of Baltimore / Transportation - Highways / Welder
Job-title file
Carry out the duties of this position in support of the agency's public mission.
2 employees hold this title in Transportation - Highways. Median total compensation for the role is $57,272, 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 Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers — about 1,290 people — is $61,920. Transportation - Highways pays a median base salary of $60,770 for this role, 2% below that figure — about the 48th percentile of local pay for the occupation.
The bar is the range of annual wages for Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers 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 Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers — about 416,210 people — is $53,750. Transportation - Highways’s median base salary is 13% above that national figure, about the 69th 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 Transportation - Highways is $60,770, 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
Welder is held in 5 City of Baltimore departments. In Transportation - Highways, the median of $57,272 ranks #1 of 5.
Median total compensation for the Welder 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 12 jurisdictions. In City of Baltimore, the median of $55,753 ranks #10 of 12. See Welder across all of City of Baltimore →
Median total compensation for comparable Welder 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.
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Record list
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Welder/Transportation - Highways
Source-specific fields
At Transportation - Highways, Keith Alleyne serves as a Welder. Hired in 1996, they have about 25 years of service. Their 2021 pay totaled $60,770.
Welder/Transportation - Highways
Source-specific fields
John Kirkland works as a Welder for Transportation - Highways. Hired in 2016, they have about 5 years of service. John earned $53,774 in 2021.