Heavy equipment operator salary in Hagerstown, MD-WV
Updated September 27, 2026 with BLS data from May 2025
Heavy equipment operators in the Hagerstown–Martinsburg, MD-WV area earn a median of $50,800 a year, or $24.43 an hour, according to May 2025 BLS data. The highest-paid 10% make over $66,850 a year. Statewide, heavy equipment operators earn a median of $61,410; Hagerstown is 17% below it.
- Apprentice starting pay (estimate)
- $19.24/hr
- Jobs in this area
- 380
- After cost of living
- $53,940
- Median hourly pay
- $24.43/hr
- vs U.S. median
- −15%
- vs Maryland median
- −17%
- Mean (average) pay
- $54,150 a year · $26.04 an hour
Pay by percentile
What heavy equipment operators in Hagerstown, MD-WV earn at each point of the pay range, May 2025: 10% earn less than the 10th percentile, half earn less than the median, and 10% earn more than the 90th.
| Percentile | Hourly | Yearly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $19.24 | $40,010 |
| 25th percentile | $21.90 | $45,550 |
| Median (50th) | $24.43 | $50,800 |
| 75th percentile | $29.53 | $61,430 |
| 90th percentile | $32.14 | $66,850 |
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. BLS yearly figures are the hourly wage times 2,080 hours.
How Hagerstown, MD-WV compares
- Hagerstown has the lowest heavy equipment operator median of the 6 Maryland metro areas with published pay.
- Heavy equipment operators are more concentrated in the Hagerstown area than nationally: 3.6 of every 1,000 jobs, 1.2 times the U.S. share.
Other Maryland metro areas
Other trades in Hagerstown, MD-WV
Questions
- Do heavy equipment operators make more in Hagerstown or Philadelphia?
- Philadelphia pays more: the median is $50,800 in Hagerstown and $66,810 in Philadelphia, a 24% difference.
About this data
Wages are from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey for May 2025, occupation 47-2073 (Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators), area code 25180 (Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV). BLS counts wage and salary workers only, so self-employed heavy equipment operators and business owners aren't included. The cost-of-living figure divides the median by the Bureau of Economic Analysis Regional Price Parity for 2024 (94.2, where the U.S. average is 100). Page updated September 27, 2026. How we calculate these figures