State labor market
Maryland labor market
Current statewide hiring activity plus occupation-level employment and pay for Maryland. OEWS answers what occupations pay and how many workers BLS estimates are employed; the postings measures show more current statewide hiring activity.
Current statewide signal
Maryland hiring snapshot
Indeed job-postings measures across all occupations in Maryland.
Indeed job postings only. Postings are not a count of all vacancies or hires, Indeed does not cover the whole labor market, and this is statewide activity across all occupations, not an occupation health score. Each series is seasonally adjusted and indexed to its own February 1, 2020 level, so a higher index does not mean more jobs than another state. Source: Indeed Hiring Lab · CC BY 4.0 · retrieved Sep 26, 2026. JobMarketHealth calculates the displayed changes and differences.
Occupations & pay
Where Maryland workers are employed
The eight largest occupations in our tracked OEWS catalog, by BLS estimated employment. These are estimated jobs held, not current openings or a count of unique people.
General and operations managers
96,740estimated employmentSecretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive
54,890estimated employmentLaborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
47,710estimated employmentHome health and personal care aides
46,560estimated employmentPay examples
Selected occupation pay examples
The same familiar occupations on every state page. Each U.S. figure uses the same measure (annual or hourly) as the Maryland figure beside it.
- Registered nurses$99,790/yr Maryland median annualU.S. $97,550/yr
- Software developers$138,680/yr Maryland median annualU.S. $135,980/yr
- Electricians$73,490/yr Maryland median annualU.S. $63,190/yr
- Accountants and auditors$89,370/yr Maryland median annualU.S. $83,680/yr
- Elementary school teachers, except special education$77,680/yr Maryland median annualU.S. $63,970/yr
- Marketing managers$154,160/yr Maryland median annualU.S. $166,790/yr
Pay compared with the U.S.
How Maryland occupation pay differs
Up to 5 occupations per side with at least 1,000 estimated Maryland workers and published state and U.S. median annual wages, ordered by the largest percentage gap. Nominal wages, not adjusted for cost of living; not a demand or overall market ranking, and not a test of statistical significance.
Higher median than U.S.
- Health education specialists$104,470/yr state median · 2,220 workers+63.1%vs. U.S. $64,070/yr
- Chemists$140,670/yr state median · 2,480 workers+54.2%vs. U.S. $91,240/yr
- Interpreters and translators$88,550/yr state median · 1,150 workers+47.2%vs. U.S. $60,170/yr
- Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other$164,670/yr state median · 5,840 workers+42.9%vs. U.S. $115,210/yr
- Teaching assistants, postsecondary$58,330/yr state median · 5,030 workers+35.9%vs. U.S. $42,910/yr
Lower median than U.S.
- Therapists, all other$49,400/yr state median · 1,310 workers-36.6%vs. U.S. $77,930/yr
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents$61,660/yr state median · 8,420 workers-21.6%vs. U.S. $78,660/yr
- Physicians, all other$212,080/yr state median · 10,340 workers-20.2%vs. U.S. $265,930/yr
- Refuse and recyclable material collectors$41,870/yr state median · 3,120 workers-15.7%vs. U.S. $49,690/yr
- Tax preparers$47,020/yr state median · 1,240 workers-14.4%vs. U.S. $54,920/yr
Explore occupations
Occupation pay in Maryland
Search every tracked OEWS occupation record for Maryland. Links marked “Maryland report” open a detailed state report; links marked “National report” open the U.S. occupation report because no Maryland report is available.
677 occupations · showing 1–25
Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), reference period May 2025; our data connection last checked Sep 23, 2026. OEWS covers wage and salary jobs and excludes the self-employed. “Top-coded” means BLS publishes only that the wage is at or above its reporting ceiling; “Not released” means BLS withheld the estimate. Missing values are never estimated. These occupation wages are separate from the QCEW industry trends on detailed occupation pages.